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PAMPHLET  is  the  property  of 
the  office  or  the  school  district  to 
which  it  is  furnished,  and  is  to  be 
turned  over  to  their  successors  in  office 
by  school  officers,  and  left  in  the  school 
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STATE  OF  NEVADA 

« • 

SCHOOL  LAWS 

1897 


Compiled  by 

H.  C.  CUTTING 

Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction 


OF  THE 

UNIVERSITY 


STATE  OF  NEVADA 


DEPARTMENT  OF  EDUCATION- 

CARSON  CITY,  NEVADA 

To  SCHOOL  OFFICERS  OF  NEVADA: 

The  following  are  the  amendments,  or  changes, 
made  to  the  School  Laws  of  the  State  at  the  Nine- 
teenth Session  of  the  Legislature,  1899. 

Very  respectfully, 

ORYIS   RING, 
Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction. 


AMENDMENTS  TO  SCHOOL  LAWS. 


An  Act  to  authorize  the   State   Board  of  Education  to  issue 
special  certificates  to  teach. 

[Approved  March  14,  1899.] 

The  People  of  the  State  of  Nevada,  represented  in  Senate  and 
Assembly,  do  enact  as  follows: 

SECTION  1.  The  State  Board  of  Education,  or  a  majority  of 
said  Board,  are  hereby  authorized,  and  it  shall  be  their  duty, 
to  issue  special  certificates,  good  for  two  years,  authorizing 
persons  to  teach  any  of  the  following  subjects,  to  wit:  Music, 
drawing,  penmanship,  kindergarten  work  and  any  of  the 
foreign  languages,  in  the  public  schools  of  this  State,  when 
employed  by  the  Trustees  of  any  school  district  for  that  pur- 
pose; provided,  that  a  person  applying  for  a  certificate  to  teach 
any  of  the  above  subjects,  shall  first  satisfy,  in  such  a  man- 
ner as  they  shall  deem  proper,  a  majority  of  said  Board  of 
Education  that  he  or  she  is  thoroughly  qualified  to  teach  that 
subject. 

SEC.  2.  It  shall  be  a  misdemeanor  punishable  by  a  fine 
not  to  exceed  one  hundred  dollars  for  any  School  Trustee  to 
draw  a  voucher  upon  any  school  fund  within  this  State  in 

785447 


4  AMENDMENTS   TO    SCHOOL    LAWS. 

forty-five  months  of  successful,  instruction  in  public  schools. 
To  all  graduates  of  the  Nevada  State  Normal  School,  who 
hold  a  State  grammar  school  certificate,  the  State  Board  of 
Education  shall  grant  a  life  diploma  of  the  grammar  grade 
when  said  graduates  shall  have  completed  at  least  forty-five 
months  of  successful  instruction  in  public  schools.  The  State 
Board  of  Education  shall  also  issue  a  diploma  of  the  gram- 
mar grade  to  all  persons  Avho  hold  in  full  force  and  effect, 
and  who  have  held  for  at  least  one  year,  a  county  or  a  State 
certificate  of  the  grammar  grade,  and  who  shall  present  sat- 
isfactory evidence  of  having  been  successfully  engaged  in 
teaching  in  public  schools  for  a  period  of  seventy-two  months, 
twenty-four  of  which  must  have  been  in  the  public  schools  of 
the  State  of  Nevada.  A  grammar  grade  life  diploma  shall 
entitle  the  holder  thereof  to  teach  in  any  primary  or  gram- 
mar school  in  the  State  without  further  examination. 

Thirteenth — To  have  appellate  jurisdiction  over  all  ques- 
tions relating  to  schools  and  referred  to  County  Boards  of 
Examination. 

Fourteenth — To  prescribe  in  what  studies  shall  be  examined 
an  applicant  for  a  county  high  school  certificate  valid  for 
four  years;  an  applicant  for  a  county  grammar  school  cer- 
tificate valid  for  three  years,  ajid  an  applicant  for  a  county 
primary  certificate  valid  for  two  years. 

Fifteenth — Upon  the  recommendation  of  the  County  Super- 
intendent of  the  county  in  which  the  applicant  resides,  the 
State  Board  of  Education  may  renew  a  high  school  or  gram- 
mar certificate,  or  make  it  valid  in  any  county  in  the  State 
of  Nevada. 

Sixteenth — Upon  presentation  to  them  of  a  life  certificate 
of  any  State  or  of  the  diploma  of  any  State  Normal  School, 
the  Board  may  grant  a  State  certificate  of  equivalent  grade 
without  examination,  valid  for  three  years  or  less;  provided, 
that  since  the  issuing  of  such  certificate  or  diploma  the 
applicant  has  been  continuously  or  successfully  engaged  in 
teaching. 

Seventeenth — Graduates  of  the  Nevada  State  Normal  School 
who  have  taught  successfully  for  the  time  specified  in  this 
Act,  on  or  before  January  1,  1900,  shall  be  entitled  to  life 
diplomas  of  undesignated  grade. 

Eighteenth — All  Acts  and  parts  of  Acts  in  conflict  with  this 
Act,  are  hereby  repealed. 


PREFACE 


STATE  OF  NEVADA — DEPARTMENT  OF  EDUCATION,  j 
CARSON  CITY,  April  15,  1897.  \ 

In  making  this  compilation  of  the  School  Laws,  the  General  Statutes 
of  Nevada  (edition  of  1885)  has  been  taken  as  a  basis;  and  where  no 
statutes  are  cited,  either  at  the  head  of  the  article  or  the  end  of  a  sec- 
tion, the  law  as  printed  here  will  be  found  in  Chapters  X.  or  XI.  of  that 
publication. 

The  articles  and  sections  in  this  pamphlet  have  no  reference  to  the 
articles  and  sections  in  the  statutes,  but  have  been  arranged  for  the 
convenience  of  school  officers  and  teachers. 

A  reference  at  the  beginning  of  an  article  refers  to  the  whole  article, 
but  at  the  end  of  a  section  shows  where  that  one  particular  section 
may  be  found. 

This  pamphlet  is  prepared  and  distributed  by  direction  of  Section 
1290,  p.  373,  General  Statutes  of  Nevada. 

H.  C.  CUTTING, 
Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction. 


SCHOOL  OFFICERS  OF  NEVADA. 


SUPERINTENDENT  OF  PUBLIC  INSTRUCTION: 
H.  C.  CUTTING Carson  City 

STATE  BOARD  OF  EDUCATION: 

REINHOLD  SADLER,  Acting  Governor,  President Carson  City 

Dr.  J.  E.  STUBBS,  President  of  the  State  University Reno 

H.  C.  CUTTING,  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction,  Secretary Carson  City 

REGENTS  OF  THE  STATE  UNIVERSITY: 

Hon.  W.  E.  F.  DEAL,  President Virginia  City 

Hon.  J.  N.  EVANS Reno 

Hon.  H.  S.  STABRETT— .  ..Battle  Mountain 


PRESIDENT  OF  THE  STATE  UNIVERSITY: 
J.  E.  STUBBS,  M.A.,  LL.D.,  D.D Reno 

COUNTY  SCHOOL  OFFICERS: 


County. 

Superintendent. 

Postoffice. 

Churchill 

Ira  H  Kent 

__  Still  water 

Douglas 

E  C  Nagel 

Genoa 

Elko 

\V~ebster  Patterson 

—  Elko 

Esmeralda 

George  S   Green 

Hawthorne 

Eureka 

Peter  Breen 

Eureka 

Humboldt 

L   A   Buckner 

Winnemucca 

Lander 

W  D  Jones 

Austin 

Lincoln 

F  R  McNamee 

Pioche 

A  L  Fish 

Dayton 

Nye 

J   L   Butler 

Belmont 

Ormsby 

A.  J.  McGowan 

.     .  .Carson  City 

Storey 

George  N.  Noel 

Virginia  City 

"\Vashoe 

T.  V.  Julien 

_     Reno 

White  Pine 

A.  B.  Treece 

Ely 

COUNTY    BOARD  OF    EDUCATION,  GOVERNING  COUNTY   HIGH 

SCHOOL,  ELKO  COUNTY: 
WEBSTER  PATTERSON,  A.  M.  MCAFEE,  W.  W.  BOOHER. 

E.  C.  SNYDER _• Principal  Elko  County  High  School 

A.  LOUISE  ADAMS Assistant  Principal  Elko  County  High  School 

SCHOOL  PRINCIPALS: 


Austin. W.  C.  G"ayhart 

Battle  Mountain H.  S.  Starrett 

Carson H.  H.  Howe 

Dayton O.  T.  Williams 

Empire F.  C.  McDiarmid 

Elko C.  C.  Hurley 

Eureka A.  L.  Dornberger 

Genoa.— T.  W.  Clark 

Gold  Hill A.  E.  Baugh 

Hawthorne- .Jennie  R.  Sherman 

Lovelock B.  F.  Lynip 


Panaca D.  L.  Bathurst 

Reno John  Edwards  Bray 

Ruby  Hill Louis  Rodgers 

Silver  City Mary  Holmes 

Tuscarora A.  L.  Snider 

Virginia  City M.  R.  Averill 

Virginia  City Orvis  Ring 

Verdi—-. - E.  E.  Caine 

Wadsworth Victor  Dornberger 

Winnemucca-- E.  E.  Winfrey 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  NEVADA. 

Compiled  April,  1897. 


ARTICLE   I. 

STATE  BOARD  OF  EDUCATION. 

[Statutes  1895,  p.  81.] 

SECTION  1.     The  State  Board  of  Education  shall  consist  of        d  of 
the  Governor,  the  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction,  Education, 
and  the  President  of  the  University. 

SEC.  2.     The  Governor  is  the  President,  and  the  Superin-  officers 
tendent  of  Public  Instruction  the  Secretary  of  the  Board. 

SEC,  3.     The  Board  shall  meet  at  the  call  of  the  Secretary, 
but  shall  hold  at  least  two  meetings  a  year. 

SEC.  4.     The  powers  and  duties  of  the  Board  shall  be  as 
follows: 

First — To  prescribe  and  cause  to  be  adopted  a  uniform  Powers  and 
series  of  text  books  in  the  principal  studies  pursued  in  the  Board.0* 
public  schools,  to  wit:  Reading,  writing,  arithmetic,  spell- 
ing, language,  grammar,  geography,  history  of  the  United 
States,  physiology  and  drawing.  Special  prominence  shall  be 
given  in  all  public  schools  to  the  effect  of  alcoholic  stimulants 
and  of  narcotics  upon  the  human  system.  No  school  district 
shall  be  entitled  to  receive  its  pro  rata  of  the  public  school 
money  unless  such  text  books  on  the  above  subjects  as  have 
been  prescribed  by  the  State  Board  of  Education  shall  be 
used  in  all  the  public  schools  pursuing  subjects  covered  by 
said  text  books;  and  text  books  shall  not  be  changed  oftener 
than  once  in  four  years.  For  the  schools  in  which  the  Trus- 
tees may  direct  instruction  to  be  given  in  additional  branches, 
there  shall  also  be  prescribed  text  books  in  algebra,  geometry, 
physics,  astronomy,  physical  geography,  chemistry,  Latin, 
rhetoric,'  literature,  English  history,  general  history,  civics, 
geology,  bookkeeping  and  music. 

Second — To  adopt  a  uniform  system  of  rules  for  State  and  RuleH- 
county  examinations. 

Third — To  prescribe  and  cause  to  be  adopted  the  course  of  course  of 

i       .       . ,  IT          i        i  study. 

study  in  the  public  schools. 

Fourth — To  recommend  a  list  of  books  for  district  libraries.  jFe°ommentl 
Fifth — To  grant,  first,  life  diplomas;  second,  State  educa- 
tional diplomas,  valid  for  six  years;  third,  State  High  School 
certificates,  unlimited  to  those  graduates  from  the  School  of 
Liberal  Arts  of  the  Nevada  State  University,  who  have  elected 
at  least  two  University  courses  in  pedagogics;  fourth,  State 
high  school  certificates,  valid  for  five  years,  to  graduates  of 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  NEVADA. 


official  seal, 


the  Nevada  State  Normal  School  who  have  completed  the  four 
years'  course  of  study;  fifth,  State  grammar  school  certificates, 
valid  for  five  years,  to  graduates  of  the  Nevada  State  Normal 
School  who  have  completed  the  three  years'  course  of  study. 

Sixth  —  To  revoke  for  immoral'  conduct,  or  evident  unfit- 
ness  ^or  teaching,  any  State  diploma,  or  any  State  or  county 
certificate. 

Seventh  —  To  have  done  by  the  State  Printer  any  printing 
re(luired  bv  the  Board,  such  as  the  proceedings  of  the  State 
Teachers'  Institute,  circulars  of  information  to  school  officers 
or  teachers,  and  blank  forms. 

Eighth  —  To  adopt  and  use  in  authentication  of  its  acts  an 
official  seal. 

Ninth  —  To  keep  a  record  of  its  proceedings,  which  shall  be 
published  biennially  in  the  report  of  the  Superintendent  of 
Public  Instruction. 

Tenth  —  To  have  appellate  jurisdiction  over  all  questions 
relating  to  schools  and  referred  to  County  Boards  of  Exam- 
ination. 

Eleventh  —  To  prescribe  in  what  studies  shall  be  examined 
an  applicant  for  a  county  high  school  certificate,  valid  for 

.  T  -    /  i 

tour  years;  an  applicant  for  a  county  grammar  school  certi- 
ficate, valid  for  three  years;  and  an  applicant  for  a  county 
primary  certificate,  valid  for  two  years. 

Twelfth  —  Upon  the  recommendation  of  the  County  Super- 
intendent  of  the  county  in  which  the  applicant  resides,  the 
State  Board  of  Education  may  renew  a  high  school  or  gram- 
mar certificate,  or  make  it  valid  in  any  county  in  the  State 
of  Nevada. 

Thirteenth  —  Upon  presentation  to  them  of  a  life  certificate 
of  any  State  or  of  the  diploma  of  any  State  Normal  School 
the  Board  may  grant  a  State  certificate  of  equivalent  grade 
without  examination,  valid  for  three  years  or  less;  provided, 
that  since  the  issuing  of  such  certificate  or  diploma  the 
applicant  has  been  continuously  and  successfully  engaged  in 
teaching. 

ARTICLE   II. 
SUPERINTENDENT  OF  PUBLIC  INSTRUCTION. 

SECTION  1.  The  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction  shall 
be  elected,  by  the  qualified  voters  of  the  State,  at  the  general 
provided  for.  eiection  for  gtate  an(}  COUnty  officers,  to  be  held  in  the  year 
eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-six,  and  every  four  years  there- 
after at  such  general  elections,  and  shall  enter  upon  the  duties 
of  his  office  on  the  first  Monday  of  January  next  after  his 
election.  He  shall  be  paid  a  salary  of  two  thousand  dollars 
per  annum. 

SEC.  2.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Superintendent  of  Public 
Instruction,  subject  to  the  supervision  of  the  State  Board  of 
Education,  immediately  after  the  State  Controller  shall  have 


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TO  prescribe 

studies  for 

examination, 


Board 
certificates. 


state 


Election  of, 


OF  THE 

UNIVERSITY 


SCHOOL  LAWS   OF   NEVADA. 

made  his  semi-annual  report  as  hereinafter  required,  to  appor-  Required  to 
tion  to  the  several  counties  the  amount  of  school  money  in  So?10" 
the  State  Treasury  to  which  each  shall  be  entitled  under  the  moneys. 
provisions  of  this  Act,  in  proportion  to  the  number  of  persons 
between  the  ages  of  six  and  eighteen  years  residing  therein, 
as  shown  by  the  last  previous  reports  of  the  County  Super- 
intendents, and  to  furnish  to  the  State  Controller,  to  each 
County   Treasurer,  to   each    County    Auditor,   and   to   each 
County  Superintendent  an  abstract  of  such  apportionment, 
and  with  such  apportionment  to  furnish  each  County  Treas- 
urer his  order  on  the  State  Controller,  under  the  seal  of  the 
State  Board  of  Education,  for  the  amount  of  school  moneys 
in  the  .State  Treasury  to  which  such  counties  shall  be  entitled, 
and  to  taVe  such  County  Treasurer's  receipt  for  the  same. 

SEC.  3.  The  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction  shall  T0  ™{jjje  a 
report  to  the  Governor,  biennially,  on  or  before  the  first  of  report* 
December  of  the  years  preceding  the  regular  session  of  the 
Legislature.  The  Governor  shall  transmit  said  report  to  the 
Legislature;  and  whenever  it  is  ordered  published,  the  State 
Printer  shall  deliver  two  hundred  and  fifty  copies  to  the  Super- 
intendent, who  shall  distribute  the  same  among  school  officers 
of  the  State  and  of  the  United  States.  Said  report  shall  con- 
tain a  full  statement  of  the  condition  of  public  instruction 
in  the  State;  a  statement  of  the  condition  and  amount  of  all 
funds  and  property  appropriated  to  the  purpose  of  educa- 
tion; the  number  and  grade  of  schools  in  each  county;  the 
number  of  children  in  each  county  between  the  ages  of  six  and 
eighteen  years;  the  number  of  such  attending  public  schools; 
the  number  of  such  attending  private  schools;  the  number 
attending  no  schools;  the  number  under  six  years  of  age;  the 
number  between  eighteen  and  twenty-one  years  of  age;  the 
amount  of  public  school  moneys  apportioned  to  each  county; 
the  amount  of  money  raised  by  county  taxation,  district  tax, 
rate  bills,  subscription  or  otherwise,  by  any  city,  town,  district 
or  county,  for  the  support  of  schools  therein;  the  amount  of 
money  raised  for  building  school  houses;  a  statement  of 
plans  for  the  management  and  improvement  of  public 
schools;  and  such  other  information  relative  to  the  educa- 
tional interests  of  the  State  as  he  may  think  of  importance. 
•  SEC.  4.  The  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction  shall 
prescribe  suitable  forms  and  regulations  for  making  all  reports  provide 
and  conducting  all  necessary  proceedings  under  this  Act,  and  bl 
shall  cause  the  same,  with  such  instructions  as  he  shall  deem 
necessary  and  proper  for  the  organization  and  government  of 
schools,  to  be  transmitted  to  the  local  school  officers,  who 
shall  be  governed  in  accordance  therewith.  He  shall  pre- 
pare a  convenient  form  of  school  register  for  the  purpose  of 
securing  more  accurate  returns  from  teachers  of  public 
schools,  and  shall  furnish  each  County  Superintendent  with 
a  number  sufficient  to  supply  at  least  one  copy  thereof  to 
each  district  or  school  of  such  county.  He  shall  prepare 


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pamphlet  copies  of  the  school  law  and  all  amendments 
thereto,  and  shall  transmit  a  number  of  the  same  to  the 
County  Superintendent,  sufficient  to  supply  each  and  every 
School  Trustee,  School  Marshal  and  school  teacher  with  at 
least  one  copy  of  the  same. 

SEC.  5.     It   shall  be   the   duty   of  the   Superintendent  of 
Public  Instruction  to  visit  each  county  in  the  State  at  least 
state.  once  in  each  year  for  the  purpose  of  visiting  schools,  of  con- 

sulting County  Superintendents,  of  lecturing  and  addressing 
public  assemblies  on  subjects  pertaining  to  public  schools; 
and  the  actual  traveling  expenses  incurred  by  the  Superin- 
tendent in  the  discharge  of  this  duty  shall  be  allowed,  audited 
and  paid  out  of  the  General  Fund  in  the  same  manner  as 
claims  upon  said  fund  are  now  allowed,  audited  and  paid; 
provided,  that  the  sum  so  expended  in  any  one  year  shall  not 
exceed  one  thousand  dollars. 

SEC.  6.  ,The  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction  shall, 
a*  ^e  expiration  of  his  term  of  office,  deliver  over,  on 
demand,  to  his  successor,  all  property  and  effects  belonging 
to  his  office,  and  take  his  receipt  for  the  same. 


ARTICLE   III. 

EX  OFFICIO  COUNTY  SUPERINTENDENT  OF  PUBLIC 
SCHOOLS. 

SECTION  1.  On  and  after  the  first  Monday  in  January,  A. 
Attorneys  to  ^'  eignteen  hundred  and  eighty-nine,  the  District  Attorneys, 
beexrofflC8io°  in  addition  to  their  respective  duties,  shall  be  ex  officio  Super- 
superintend-  intendent  of  Schools  within  their  respective  counties,  without 
ents.  additional  compensation.  [As  amended  Stats.  1887,  p.  73.] 

In  Lyon  county  the  County  Recorder,  as  ex  officio  County  Auditor, 
shall  also  be  ex  officio  Superintendent  of  Public  Schools.  [As  amended 
Stats.  1891,  p.  63.] 

SEC.  2.     It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  County  Superintendent 

TO  apportion  of   Public  Schools,  upon    receiving   notice  from  the    County 

money.          Treasurer  and  County  Auditor,  as  provided  in  this  Act,  to 

apportion  the  public  school  moneys  in  the  county  treasury 

among  the  several  school  districts  of  his  county  as  follows: 

First — He  must  ascertain  the  number  of  teachers  each  dis- 
trict is  entitled  to,  by  calculating  one  teacher  for  every 
seventy-five  census  children  or  fraction  thereof,  as  shown  by 
the  next  preceding  school  census. 

Second — He  must  ascertain  the  total  number  of  teachers 
for  the  county  by  adding  together  the  number  of  teachers 
assigned  to  the  several  districts,  upon  the  basis  of  one  teacher 
to  each  seventy-five  census  children  or  fraction  thereof. 

Third — Forty  per  cent  of  the  amount  of  the  apportionment 
from  the  State  and  County  School  Fund  shall  be  apportioned 
equally  to  each  district  for  every  teacher  assigned  it,  upon 
the  basis  of  seventy-five  census  children  or  fraction  thereof. 

Fourth — All  school  moneys  remaining  on  hand  after  appor- 


SCHOOL  LAWS   OF  NEVADA. 

tioning  forty  per  cent  of  the  State  and  county  apportionment 
equally  to  each  district  for  every  teacher  assigned  it,  upon 
the  basis  of  seventy-five  census  children  or  fraction  thereof, 
must  be  apportioned  to  the  several  districts  in  proportion  to 
the  number  of  children  between  the  ages  of  six  and  eighteen 
years,  as  returned  by  the  School  Trustees  and  Census  Mar- 
shals, and  to  forthwith  notify  the  County  Treasurer,  County 
Auditor  and  the  School  Trustees,  in  writing,  of  such  appor- 
tionment in  detail.  He  shall  make  such  apportionment  on 
the  first  Monday  in  January  of  each  year,  and  quarterly  MQ] 
thereafter.  He  shall  have  power,  and  it  shall  be  his  duty,  to  Jamuuy.0 
draw  his  order  on  the  County  Auditor  in  favor  of  the  Trus- 
tees of  any  school  districts  in  his  county  for  any  bill  signed 
by  said  Trustees,  and  authorized  by  this  Act;  provided,  that 
such  order  shall  not  be  drawn  except  upon  presentation  of 
an  itemized  account,  which  shall  remain  on  file  in  his  office, 
and  until  full  and  correct  returns  have  been  made  to  him  as 
required  by  law;  and  provided,  further,  that  if,  in  the  opinion 
of  the  Superintendent,  any  bill  contains  an  exorbitant  or 
unwarranted  charge,  he  may  refuse  to  draw  his  order  until 
ordered  to  do  so  by  the  Board  of  County  Commissioners,  who  « 

shall  act  as  auditors  upon  all  bills  rejected  by  the  County 
Superintendent.  No  order  shall  be  drawn  in  favor  of  any 
school  district  by  the  County  Superintendent  upon 'the  Aud- 
itor unless  there  be  cash  in  the  treasury  at  the  time  to  the 
credit  of  said  district.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  County 
Auditor  to  draw  his  warrant  upon  the  County  Treasurer  for 
the  amount  of  any  such  order  of  the  County  Superintendent 
upon  the  presentation  of  the  same  to  him,  if  there  be  cash 
in  the  treasury  to  the  credit  of  the  particular  fund  on  which 
he  is  called  upon  to  draw.  No  charge  for  issuing  said  war- 
rant shall  be  made  by  the  County  Auditor.  [As  amended 
Stats.  1889,  p.  38.] 

SEC.  3.  The  County  Superintendent  shall  have  power,  and 
it  shall  be  his  duty: 

First — To  visit  each  public  school  in  his  county  within  ten  gjjjy  of 
miles  of  the  county  seat,  at  least  once  in  each  term ;  provided,  superin- 
that  he  shall  visit  all  the  schools  in  his  county  once  in  each  tendent- 
year;  to  exercise  a  general  supervision  over  the  interests  of 
the  public  schools  in  his   county,  and   give   to   the    School 
Trustees,  Marshals  and  teachers  such  aid  as  may  be  important 
to  the  prosperity  of  the  schools. 

Second — To  distribute  promptly  such  blanks,  reports, 
forms,  laws  and  instructions  as  shall  be  received  by  him  from 
the  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction  for  the  use  of  School 
Trustees,  Marshals  and  teachers,  and  any  other  officers 
entitled  to  receive  the  same. 

Third — To  keep  on  file  in  his  office  the  reports  of  the  School 
Trustees,  Marshals  and  teachers  received  by  him,  and  to 
record  all  his  official  acts  in  a  book  to  be  provided  for  that 
purpose,  and  at  the  close  of  his  official  term  to  deliver  to  his 


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Fine  in  case 
of  failure  to 
report. 


Deputy 
allowed. 


successor  such  records,  and  all  documents,  books  and  papers 
belonging  to  his  office,  and  to  take  duplicate  receipts  for  the 
same,  which  shall  be  filed  in  the  office  of  the  County  Treas- 
urer and  the  County  Auditor. 

Fourth — To  make  a  full  report,  annually,  on  or  before  the 
fifteenth  day  of  September  for  the  school  year  ending  on  the 
last  day  of  August  next  previous  thereto,  to  the  Superin- 
tendent of  Public  Instruction;  such  report  to  include  an 
abstract  of  all  the  various  annual  reports  of  the  City  Boards 
of  Education,  School  Trustees,  Marshals  and  teachers,  by  law 
required  to  be  made  to  the  County  Superintendents  for  the 
previous  school  year. 

Fifth — To  preside  over,  regulate  and  conduct  ^all  County 
Teachers'  Institutes  which  may  be  called  under  the*  provisions 
of  the  section  of  this  Act  providing  for  the  calling  of  such 
institutes. 

Sixth — To  appoint  School  Trustees  in  all  the  districts  in 
which  the  qualified  voters  fail  to  elect,  and  to  fill  by  appoint- 
ment all  vacancies  occurring  in  said  office. 

Seventh — To  draw  his  orders  on  the  County  Auditor  in  favor 
of  the  Board  of  Trustees  for  warrants  on'the  County  Treasurer 
for  the  purchase  of  school  books  which  may  be  furnished  by 
said  Trustees  to  indigent  children  of  the  district,  making  the 
same  payable  out  of  the  county  school  moneys  apportioned 
to  such  districts. 

SEC.  4.  If  the  County  Superintendent  fails  to  make  a  full 
and  correct  report  to  the  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction 
of  all  statements  required  to  be  made  by  law,  he  shall  forfeit 
the  sum  of  two  hundred  dollars  from  his  salary;  and  the 
Board  of  Commissioners  are  hereby  authorized  and  required 
to  deduct  therefrom  the  sum  aforesaid,  upon  information  from 
the  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction  that  such  returns 
have  not  been  made;  and  in  case  said  Superintendent  remain 
delinquent  for  a  period  of  two  months,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of 
the  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction  to  give  notice 
to  the  Board  of  County  Commissioners  of  such  county  of  the 
removal  from  office  of  said  delinquent  and  the  appointment 
of  some  other  person  to  fill  the  vacancy. 

SEC.  5.  He  may  appoint  a  deputy,  who  shall  have  authority 
to  transact  all  the  business  of  the  office  during  the  absence  or 
inability  of  the  Superintendent;  provided,  that  the  county 
shall  not  be  responsible  for  the  payment  of  the  salary  of  such 
deputy.  He  shall,  in  person  or  by  deputy,  attend  to  his  office 
during  business  hours  of  Saturday  of  each  week,  for  the  pur- 
pose of  drawing  warrants  and  the  transaction  of  other  official 
business. 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  NEVADA.  11 

ARTICLE    IV. 

SCHOOL  DISTRICTS. 

SECTION  1.  Each  village,  town  or  incorporated  city  of  this 
State  shall  constitute  but  one  school  district;  and  the  public 
schools  therein  shall  be  under  the  supervision  and  control  of 
the  Trustees  thereof;  provided,  in  all  such  villages,  towns 
and  cities  wherein  the  aggregate  number  of  registered  voters 
thereof,  at  the  last  previous  general  election,  exceeds  fifteen 
hundred,  there  shall  be  elected  five  (5)  instead  of  only  three 
Trustees. 

SEC.  2.  The  Board  of  County  Commissioners  of  the  several 
counties  of  this  State  are  hereby  authorized  And  empowered  county  coin- 
to  create  new  school  districts,  change  the  boundaries  of  school  "veTsch 
districts  heretofore  established,  or  abolish  the  same  whenever  districts. 
in  their  judgment  it  shall  be  for  the  best  interests  of  the 
common  schools  so  to  do;  provided,  that  the  boundaries  of 
any  school  district  shall  not  be  changed  nor  shall  any  school 
district  with  the  legal  number  of  school  children  within  said 
district  be  abolished  for  the  purpose  of  joining  or  consolidat- 
ing said  school  district  with  another  school  district  unless  a 
petition  signed  by  at  least  three-fifths  (f )  of  the  residents 
of  said  district  be  presented  to  said  Board  of  County  Com- 
missioners praying  for  the  change  in  the  boundaries  or  for 
the  abolishment  of  said  district;  provided,  further,  that  when 
a  new  school  district  is  organized  school  shall  be  commenced 
within  one  hundred  and  twenty  J120)  days  from  the  action 
of  the  Board  of  County  Commissioners  creating  such  new 
school  district,  and  if  school  shall  not  be  commenced  within 
the  said  one  hundred  and  twenty  (120)  days  in  the  said 
district,  then  such  action  shall  become  void  and  no  such  dis- 
trict shall  exist;  and  provided,  further,  that  no  district  organ- 
ized under  the  provisions  of  this  Act  after  its  passage  shall 
exceed  in  size  sixteen  (16)  miles  square.  [As  amended  Stats. 
1895,  p.  43.] 

SEC.  3.  In  any  neighborhood  or  community  containing  county 
not  more  than  twenty  school  census  children,  and  where  one 
school  can  accommodate  all  the  school  census  children 
therein,  although  the  most  distant  school  census  child  resides 
.not  to  exceed  five  miles  from  the  school  house,  but  one  school 
shall  receive  public  school  money,  and  the  County  Superin- 
tendent of  Public  Schools  shall  decide  the  school  house  in 
which  the  school  shall  be  kept  open. 

SEC.  4.  No  school  district  shall  be  entitled  to  receive 
moneys  from  the  county  funds  unless  there  shall  be  resid- 
ing in  the  district  at  least  five  school  census  children.  [As 
amended  Stats.  1887,  p.  19.] 

SEC.  5.     No  school  district,  except  when  newly  organized,  Must  keep 

•     1-11  , -,i      i     ,  .  •    ,.  P    ,1  -IT  i        i  school  three 

shall  be  entitled  to  receive  any  portion  of  the  public  school  months, 
moneys,  in  which  there  shall  not  have  been  taught  a  public 
school  for  at  least  three  months  within  the  year  ending  the 


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Funds 
divided. 


School  dis- 
tricts formed. 


Proviso. 


County  Com- 
missioners to 
appoint 
Trustees. 


Successors, 
when  chosen. 


Apportion- 
ment of 
moneys. 


last  day  of  August  previous;  and  no  public  school  shall 
receive  any  moneys,  benefits  or  immunities  under  the  provis- 
ions of  this  Act,  unless  such  school  shall  have  been  instructed 
by  a  teacner  or  teachers  duly  examined,  approved  and 
employed  by  legal  authority,  as  herein  provided.  When  a 
new  district  is  formed  by  the  division  of  an  old- one,  it  shall 
be  entitled  to  a  just  share  of  the  school  moneys  to  the  credit 
of  the  old  district,  after  the  payment  of  all  outstanding  debts 
at  the  time  when  a  school  was  actually  commenced  in  such 
new  district;  and  the  County  Superintendent  shall  divide 
and  apportion  such  remaining  money,  according  to  the  num- 
ber of  census  children  resident  in  each  district,  for  which 
purpose  he  may*  order  a  census  to  be  taken,  the  expenses  of 
which  shall  be  met  as  provided  in  section  thirty-two. 

JOINT  SCHOOL  DISTRICTS. 

SECTION  1.  School  districts  may  be  formed  of  parts  of 
two  or  more  counties;  provided,  there  are  not  in  such  part  of 
either  county  the  number  of  heads  of  families  required  by 
law  for  the  formation  of  school  districts. 

SEC.  2.  When  the  petition  for  such  school  shall  be  granted 
and  the  district  established,  the  County  Commissioners  of 
each  county  in  which  parts  of  such  district  is  located  shall 
appoint  three  Trustees,  two  from  the  county  having,  at  the 
time  of  such  application,  the  largest  number  of  census  chil- 
dren in  its  part  of  said  district,  their  successors  to  be  chosen 
at  the  next  general  election  on  the  same  basis. 

SEC.  3.  The  County  Superintendents  of  Public  Schools 
of  each  county  out  of  which  such  school  districts  may  be 
formed,  shall  apportion  the  public  school  moneys  in  propor- 
tion to  the  number  of  census  children  of  school  age  residing 
in  such  districts  in  their,  respective  counties,  as  provided  by 
law,  upon  the  basis  of  the  fractional  part  of  the  district  con- 
tained in  said  county  for  every  teacher  assigned  it,  upon  the 
basis  of  one  hundred  [seventy -five]  census  children  or  fraction 
thereof. 


school 


vacancies 


ARTICLE    V. 
ELECTION  OF  SCHOOL  TRUSTEES. 

[Stats.  1897,  p.  100.] 

SECTION  1.  An  election  of  School  Trustees  shall  be  held 
in  each  school  district  in  the  State  on  the  fourth  Monday  in 
May,  1898,  and  every  two  years  thereafter,  and  at  such  elec- 
tions two  Trustees  shall  be  elected,  one  to  serve  two  years 
and  one  to  serve  four  years.  The  Trustees  so  elected  shall 
take  their  office  on  the  first  Monday  in  July  next  succeeding 
their  election. 

SEC.  2.  In  all  cases  where  Trustees  are  not  elected  as  pro- 
vided  in  this  Act,  or  whenever  vacancies  occur,  the  Superin- 


SCHOOL  LAWS   OF  NEVADA.  13 

tendent  of  Public  Schools  shall  fill  such  vacancies  by  appoint- 
ment. 

SEC.  3.     All  Judges  and  Inspectors  of  Election  and  such  ^tion 
other  officers  as  may  be  necessary,  shall  be  appointed  by  the  appointed. 
School  Trustees  in   each   district.     If  the   Trustees   fail   to 
appoint  the  election  officers,  or  if  they  are  not  present  at  the 
time  of  opening  the  polls,  the  electors  present  may  appoint 
them.     All  such  officers  shall  serve  without  compensation. 

SEC.  4.     The  Election  Board  shall  issue  certificates  of  elec-  certificates 

. .  ,,  ,    .          . ,  i  e          .  ,     .      of  election. 

tion  to  those  receiving  the  greatest  number  01  votes  cast  in 
accordance  with  the  provisions  of  this  Act. 

SEC.  5.  Not  less  than  ten  days  before  the  election  held  Notices  to  be 
under  the  provisions  of  this  Act,  the 'Trustees  in  each  district 
shall  post  notices  in  three  public  places  in  the  district,  which 
notice  shall  specify  that  there  will  be  an  election  held  at  the 
school  house  of  such  district  and  the  hours  between  which  the 
polls  will  be  kept  open.  If  the  Trustees  of  any  district  shall 
have  failed  to  post  the  notices  as  required  by  this  section, 
then  any  three  electors  of  the  district  may,  within  five  days 
of  the  day  of  election,  give  notice  of  such  election,  which 
notices  shall  be  sufficient  for  the  election  required  by  this 
Act,  and  in  such  case  no  registration  shall  be  necessary,  but 
all  the  other  provisions  of  this  Act  shall  be  enforced. 

SEC.  6.  No  person  shall  be  allowed  to  vote  at  any  school  {^JJJJJI*1011 
election  unless  he  is  a  resident  of  the  district  and  his  name 
appears  upon  the  official  registry  list  of  the  voting  precinct 
or  precincts  including  the  district  for  the  last  preceding  gen- 
eral election;  provided,  that  any  citizen  of  the  United -States 
who  shall  have  resided  in  this  State  six  months,  and  in  the 
school  district  thirty  days  next  preceding  the  day  of  election, 
and  whose  name  is  not  upon  the  said  official  registry  list, 
may  apply  to  the  Clerk  of  the  Board  of  School  Trustees,  or 
to  a  person  authorized  by  the  Trustees  of  the  district  to  act 
as  registry  agent,  not  more  than  eight  nor  less  than  five  days 
prior  to  the  day  of  election,  to  have  his  name  registered. 

SEC.  7.     It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Clerk  of  the  Board  of  Relating  to 
School  Trustees,  or  the  person   appointed  by  the  Board  of  r( 
School  Trustees,  as  the  case  may  be,  to  register  any  qualified 
voter  of  the  school  district  who  may  apply  to  be  registered 
under  the  provisions  of  the  preceding  section;  provided,  that 
if  the  person  applying  to  be  registered  be  unknown  to  the 
registry  agent,  or  his  qualifications  for  voting  be  unknown, 
he  shall,  before  having  his  name  registered,  be  required  to 
subscribe  to   the   following   oath  :     You  do  solemnly  swear  Form  of 
that  you  are  a  citizen  of  the   United  States;  that  you   are  ot 
twenty -one  years  of  age;  that  you  will  have  resided  in  the 
State  six  months  and  in  this  school  district  thirty  days  next 
preceding  the  day  of   the   school  election.     False   swearing 
under  the  provisions  of  this  section  shall  be  deemed  perjury 
and  punished  as  now  provided  by  law. 

SEC.  8.     No  person  shall  be  entitled  to  vote  under  the  pro- 


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List  of 
voters. 


List  of 
voters  to  be 
prepared. 


Compensa- 
tion allowed. 


List  delivered 
to  Inspectors 
of  Election. 


Voting  shall 
be  by  ballot. 


Ballots,  what 
to  contain. 


Number  of 
ballots. 


How  to  vote. 


Ballot  can 
contain. 


visions  of  this  Act  except  he  be  registered  as  herein  provided. 
The  Board  of  School  Trustees  shall  prepare,  or  cause  to  be 
prepared,  a  list  of  the  names  of  all  persons  entitled  to  vote 
at  the  school  election  as  herein  provided,  which  said  list  shall 
be  completed  at  least  three  days  prior  to  the  day  of  election, 
and  shall  be  under  the  charge  of  the  Clerk  of  the  Board  of 
School  Trustees  and  subject  to  the  inspection  of  any  qualified 
voter  in  the  district. 

SEC.  9.  The  Board  of  School  Trustees  in  all  school  dis- 
tricts having  a  voting  population  of  fifty  or  more,  are  author- 
ized to  employ  a  competent  person  to  prepare  said  list  of 
qualified  voters  and  to  pay  for  the  work  out  of  the  school  fund 
of  the  district,  in  [a]  manner  as  other  claims  against  the  dis- 
trict are  allowed  and  paid,  a  reasonable  sum,  not  exceeding 
five  cents  a  name  for  each  qualified  voter,  providing,  that  the 
total  amount  to  be  allowed  shall  not  exceed  twenty  dollars. 
The  list  so  prepared  shall  be  sworn  to  by  the  person  making 
the  same  as  correct  according  to  his  best  knowledge,  informa- 
tion and  belief. 

SEC.  10.  The  list  of  qualified  voters,  as  hereinbefore 
described,  shall  be  delivered  to  the  Inspectors  of  Election 
prior  to  the  time  of  opening  the  polls  on  the  day  of  election, 
and  no  person  shall  be  entitled  to  vote  at  the  election  whose 
name  is  not  on  said  list;  provided,  that  any  person  whose 
name  is  left  off  said  list  by  mistake,  design,  accident  or 
otherwise,  may  have  his  name  placed  thereon  by  the  Inspect- 
ors of  Election  upon  satisfactory  proofs  being  presented  of 
his  having  previously  been  registered  in  accordance  with  the 
provisions  of  this  Act. 

SEC.  11.  The  voting  shall  be  by  ballot,  either  written  or 
printed,  and  when  two  or  more  Trustees  are  to  be  elected  for 
different  terms,  the  ballots  shall  designate  such  term  as 
"  long  term  "  and  "  short  term  "  respectively. 

SEC.  12.  In  all  school  districts  having  a  voting  popula- 
tion of  one  hundred  or  over,  the  Board  of  School  Trustees 
shall  have  printed  ballots  of  uniform  size  containing  the 
names,  in  alphabetical  order,  of  all  persons  candidates  for 
the  office  of  School  Trustee.  There  shall  be  twice  as  many 
ballots  printed  as  there  are  voters  in  the  district,  and  no 
ballots  other  than  those  furnished  by  the  Board  of  School 
Trustees  shall  be  voted. 

SEC.  13.  A  person  desiring  to  vote  shall,  if  his  name  be 
upon  the  registry  list  as  herein  provided,  receive  from  the 
Board  of  Election  or  some  member  thereof,  and  from  no  other 
person,  a  ballot  upon  which  he  shall  designate  his  choice  for 
Trustee  or  Trustees  to  be  elected  in  the  district,  by  placing  a 
cross  thus:  X,  opposite  and  to  the  right  of  the  name  of  the 
person  for  whom  he  intends  to  vote. 

SEC,  14.  There  shall  be  placed  upon  the  ballots,  in  addi- 
tion to  the  names  of  the  candidates,  such  information  as  the 
Board  of  Trustees  may  deem  necessary  to  inform  the  voter 


OF  THE 

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SCHOOL  LAWS   OF   NEVADA.      V     ~  JJ  15 


how  to  mark  his  ballot,  such  as:     "Place  a  cross 
opposite  and  to  the  right  of  the  name  of  the  candidate  for 
whom  you  wish  to  vote,"  "  vote  for  one,"  "  vote  for  two,"  etc. 

SEC.  15.  No  person,  other  than  the  Board  of  Election  or  a 
police  officer  in  the  discharge  of  his  duty,  shall  be  allowed 
within  one  hundred  feet  of  the  polls,  except  when  actually 
engaged  in  voting  or  in  going  to  or  from  the  polls  for  the  pur- 
pose of  voting  or  of  challenging  the  vote  of  another,  and 
excepting  all  persons  in  attendance  upon  any  school  which 
may  be  in  session  in  the  building.  No  person  shall  show  his 
ballot  to  another  while  marking  it  or  after  marking  it  so  as 
to  disclose  for  whom  he  has  voted,  but  he  shall,  as  soon  as 
possible  after  marking  it,  fold  it  so  that  the  marking  will  be 
on  the  inside  and  return  it  to  the  Board  of  Election  to  be 
counted.  Willful  violation  of  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  Misdemeanor 
section  shall  constitute  a  misdemeanor,  punishable  by  fine 
not  exceeding  fifty  dollars,  or  imprisonment  in  the  County 
Jail  not  exceeding  twenty-five  days,  or  by  both  such  fine  and 
imprisonment. 

SEC.  16.     No   person  shall  receive  assistance  in  marking  Assistance 
his  ballot  unless  physically  unable  to  mark  it  and  then  only 
by   permission  of  the  Board  of  Election.     A  voter  spoiling 
his  ballot  may  procure  another  by  delivering  the  spoiled  bal- 
lot to  the  Board  of  Election. 

SEC.  17.  Any  registered  person  offering  to  vote  may  be  challenges, 
challenged  by  any  elector  of  the  district,  and  the  Judges  of 
Election  must  thereupon  administer  to  the  person  challenged 
an  oath  in  substance  as  follows:  You  do  swear  that  you  are 
a  citizen  of  the  United  States;  that  you  are  twenty-one  years 
of  age;  that  you  have  resided  in  this  State  six  months,  and 
in  this  school  district  thirty  days  next  preceding  this  elec- 
tion, and  that  you  have  not  voted  before  this  day.  If  he 
takes  the  oath  prescribed  in  this  section  his  vote  shall  be 
received,  otherwise  his  vote  must  be  rejected.  Illegally  vot- 
ing under  the  provisions  of  this  Act  shall  be  punished  the  Penalty, 
same  as  the  law  now  provides  for  punishing  offenses  of  this 
character. 

SEC.  18.     In  school  districts  having  a  voting  population  of  candidates 

ITT  -I  •  i  »          j  i  r**  »    e*  t        -.to  file  their 

one  hundred  or  over,  candidates  for  the  office  of  School  names. 
Trustee  shall,  not  later  than  five  days  before  the  day  of  elec- 
tion, have  their  names  filed  with  the  Clerk  of  the  Board  of 
School  Trustees  with  the  designation  of  the  term  of  office  for 
which  they  are  candidates,  and  no  names  shall  be  placed 
upon  the  ballots  unless  filed  within  the  time  herein  provided. 

SEC.  19.     The   Board   of  Election   shall   keep   a  poll  list  Boa^d°of 
and  tally  sheet,  which,  together  with  the  registry  list  and  all  Election 
ballots  cast,  shall  be  delivered  to  the  County  Clerk  upon  the  completion 
count  being  completed,  and  such  returns  shall  be  kept  as  the  ot  count- 
law  now  provides  for  keeping  returns  of  general  elections. 


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ARTICLE   VI. 

BOARDS  OF  TRUSTEES  OF  SCHOOL  DISTRICTS. 

SECTION  1.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Trustees,  a  majority 
TO  appoint  of  whom  shall  constitute  a  quorum  for  the  transaction  of 
business,  to  meet  as  soon  as  practicable  after  taking  the  oath 
of  office,  at  such  place  as  may  be  most  convenient  in  the 
district,  and  to  organize  by  appointing  one  of  their  number 
Clerk  of  the 'Board,  who  shall  preside  at  official  meetings 
of  the  Trustees,  and  record  their  proceedings  in  a  book  to  be 
provided  for  the  purpose;  and  all  such  proceedings,  when  so 
recorded, -shall  be  signed  by  said  Clerk.  Said  book  shall  at 
all  times  be  subject  to  the  inspection  of  any  taxpayer  in  the 
district;  and  said  Clerk  shall  cause  full  minutes  of  the  pro- 
ceedings of  each  session  of  the  Board  to  be  published  in  some 
newspaper  having  general  circulation  in  the  district;  pro- 
videdj  that  such  publication  can  be  had  without  expense  to 
the  district.  In  districts  having  a  school  population  of  three 
cierk  allowed  hundred  or  more  the  Clerk  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  may 
receive  such  salary  as  said  Board  may  allow;  provided,  that 
such  salary  shall  not  exceed  ten  dollars  per  month. 

SEC.  2.  Each  Board  of  Public  School  Trustees  shall  con- 
Duties  stitute  a  body  corporate,  and  shall  have  care  and  custody  of 
all  school  property  within  their  district.  They  shall  have 
power  to  convey  by  deed  all  the  estate  or  interest  of  their 
district  in  any  school  house  or  site  directed  to  be  sold  by  vote 
of  the  district.  It  shall  be  their  duty,  directed  by  a  vote  of 
their  district,  to  build,  purchase  or  hire  school  houses  for  the 
use  of  the  district,  and  also,  without  such  vote,  to  cause  any 
needed  repairs  of  the  same,  when  the  expense  of  such  repairs 
will  not  exceed  five  hundred  dollars,  and  to  supply  school 
houses  with  necessary  furniture,  fixtures  and  fuel;  provided, 
that  no  public  school  house  shall  be  erected  in  any  school 
district  in  the  State  until  the  plan  of  the  same  has  been  sub- 
mitted to  and  approved  by  the  County  Superintendent  of 
Public  Schools.  County  Superintendents  may  refuse  to  draw 
their  warrants  in  payment  of  expenses  incurred  in  disregard 
of  this  provision.  Trustees  shall  cause  to  be  erected  such 
outhouses  as  decency  requires,  and  •  in  case  of  failure  or 
neglect  in  this  particular,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  County 
Superintendent  to  cause  the  work  to  be  done,  and  to  pay  for 
the  same  out  of  the  funds  belonging  to  the  delinquent  dis- 
trict. All  conveyances  of  real  estate  made  to  the  Board  of 
School  Trustees  shall  be  in  their  name  corporate  and  to  their 
successors  in  office. 

SEC.  3.  No  Trustee  shall  be  pecuniarily  interested  in  any 
contract  made  by  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  which  he  is  a 
member;  provided,  that  any  school  district  in  this  State 
which,  at  the  last  school  census  taken  in  the  year  1894  by 
the  School  Census  Marshal  in  said  district,  had  an  enumera- 
tion of  not  less  than  one  hundred  and  fifty  school  census 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  NEVADA.  17 

children,  and  not  exceeding  four  hundred  resident  within 
such  district,  or  any  district  which  may  in  the  future  have 
an  enumeration  of  not  less  than  one  hundred  and  fifty  school 
census  children,  and  not  exceeding  four  hundred,  the  Board 
of  Trustees  for  such  district  may  purchase  supplies  for  such  Board  of 
district  not  exceeding  in  the  aggregate  the  sum  of  thirty  p 
dollars  in  any  one  month  from  one  of  their  number,  when,  8UPPliea- 
in  the  judgment  of  said  Board  of  Trustees,  it  would  be  an 
inconvenience  not  to  do  so,  but  the  member  from  whom  said 
supplies  are  purchased  shall  not  vote  upon  the  allowance  of 
any  bill  for  the  same,  and  any  contract  made  in  violation  of 
this  section  shall  be  null  and  void.[  As  amended  Stats. 
1895,  p.  27.] 

SEC.  4.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Trustees  of  each  dis-  TO  cause 
trict  to  take,  or  cause  to  be  taken,  by  a  School  Census  Marshal,  taken8  to  be 
annually,  in  the  month  of  May,  an  enumeration  of  all  the 
children  between  the  ages  of  six  and  eighteen  years,  resident 
within  such  district,  and  return  a  certified  copy  thereof,  under 
oath,  to  the  County  Superintendent,  on  or  before  the  first  day 
of  July  next  following.  The  Trustee  shall  also  report  the 
number  of  schools,  .specifying  the  different  grades,  the  number 
of  teachers,  male  and  female;  the  number  of  children,  male 
and  female,  who  have  attended  school  within  the  past  year; 
the  average  attendance;  the  length  of  the  term  of  the  school; 
the  compensation  of  teachers,  male  and  female;  the  number 
and  condition  of  school  houses  and  furniture,  and  the  esti- 
mated value  thereof;  the  number  of  books  in  public  school 
libraries;  the  text  books  used  in  schools;  the  value  and  kind 
of  school  apparatus;  the  amount  of  money  raised  by  rate 
bills,  district  taxation  and  subscription  for  school  purposes; 
the  amount  expended  in  erecting  and  furnishing  school 
houses,  and  such  other  statistics  as  the  Superintendent  of 
Public  Instruction  may  require. 

SEC.  5.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  School  Trustees  to  TO  empioy 
employ  teachers  and  certify  to  the  amount  due  them  for  serv-  teachers- 
ices  to  the  County  Superintendent,  who  shall  draw  his  order 
on  the  County  Auditor  for  a  warrant  on  the  County  Treasurer 
for  the  amount;  provided,  that  salaries  of  teachers  shall  be 
determined  by  the  character  of  the  service  required,  and  that 
in  no  district  shall  there  be  discrimination  in  the  matter  of 
salary  as  against  female  teachers.  Trustees  may  dismiss  any 
teacher,  at  any  time,  for  such  reasons  as  they  deem  sufficient. 
They  shall  visit  the  school  or  schools  under  their  charge  at 
least  once  in  each  term,  by  one  or  more  of  their  number,  with 
such  other  persons  as  they  may  choose  to  invite. 

SEC.  6.   The  School  Trustees  shall  have  power,  and  it  shall 
be  their  duty: 

First — To  provide  school  houses  with  maps,  blackboards,  Duties  of 
furniture  and  other  necessary  appendages,  including  library  Trustees- 
and  cabinet  cases,  if  deemed  expedient,  and  pay  for  the  same 
out  of  the  county  school  moneys  belonging  to  their  district. 


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Duties 

of  Trustees. 


Consoli- 
dation of 
schools. 


Apply  to 

certain 

counties. 


Second — To  provide  books  for  the  indigent  children,  and 
record  books  for  the  district,  and  to  pay  for  the  same  out  of 
the  county  school  moneys  belonging  to  their  district. 

Third — To  divide  the  public  schools  within  their  district 
into  infant,  taught  by  the  Frcebel  system,  primary,  grammar 
and  high  school  departments,  and  to  employ  competent  and 
legally  qualified  teachers  for  the  instruction  of  the  different 
departments  whenever  they  shall  deem  such  division  into 
departments  advisable;  provided,  there  shall  be  such  means 
for  all  such  departments,  and,  if  not,  then  in  the  order  in 
which  they  are  herein  named,  excepting  the  infant  depart- 
ment, which  shall  not  be  considered  as  taking  precedence  of 
any  other  department;  provided,  also,  that  the  infant  depart- 
ment shall  not  be  established  in  a  school  district  having  a 
school  population  of  less  than  three  hundred  children. 

Fourth — To  suspend  or  expel  from  any  public  school  within 
their  district,  with  the  advice  of  the  teachers,  any  pupil  who 
will  not  submit  to  the  reasonable  and  ordinary  rules  of  order 
and  discipline  therein,  and  to  exclude  from  school  children 
under  six  years  of  age,  when  the  interest  of  the  school  requires 
it  to  be  done. 

Fifth — To  apportion  the  School  Fund  among  the  several 
schools  within  their  district  in  proportion  to  the  average 
number  of  pupils  attending  such  schools. 

Sixth — At  the  close  of  their  official  term,  to  deliver  over 
their  books  of  record,  and  all  papers,  books,  blanks,  docu- 
ments, money  and  all  other  property  in  their  hands  as  such 
Trustees,  to  their  successors  in  office,  and  take  their  receipt 
for  the  same,  which  receipt  shall  be  filed  with  the  County 
Superintendent. 

SEC.  7.     The  School  Trustees  shall  also  have  power  : 

First — To  unite  two  contiguous  school  districts  in  the  same 
county  or  in  adjoining  counties,  and  to  establish  a  union  school 
to  be  supported  out  of  the  funds  belonging  to  their  respective 
districts,  and  a  school  thus  established  shall  be  governed  by 
a  joint  board  composed  of  the  Trustees  of  the  combining 
districts. 

Second — To  make  arrangements  with  the  Trustees  of  any 
adjoining  district  for  the  attendance  of  such  children  in  the 
school  of  either  district  as  may  be  best  accommodated  therein, 
and  to  transfer  the  school  moneys  due  by  apportionment  to 
such  children  to  the  district  in  which  they  may  attend  school. 
The  School  Trustees  of  any  district  shall  transfer  to  an 
adjoining  district  any  child,  together  with  all  school  moneys 
due  by  apportionment  to  such  child,  whenever  the  parent  or 
guardian  shall  present  a  written  request,  accompanied  by  a 
written  permit  from  the  Board  of  School  Trustees  of-  the 
adjoining  district.  The  provisions  of  this  -Act  shall  only 
apply  to  counties  polling;  not  less  than. twenty-five  hundred 
votes  at  the  last  preceding  general  election.  [As  -amended 
Stats.  1891,  p.  99.]  This  may  be  void  on  account  of  the  proviso. 


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SEC.  8.  When  the  State  and  county  money  to  which  any  TO  keep 
district  is  entitled  is  not  sufficient  to  keep  a  school  open  in 
such  district  for  at  least  six  months  in  each  year,  it  is  hereby 
made  the  duty  of  the  Trustees  of  each  district  to  levy,  and 
they  shall  levy,  a  district  tax  upon  the  taxable  property  of 
such  district,  sufficient  to  raise  an  amount  which,  together 
with  the  State  and  county  money  to  which  such  district  is 
entitled,  will  keep  a  school  open  six  months  in  each  year; 
and  such  tax  shall  be  assessed,  equalized  and  collected  in  the 
manner  prescribed  for  assessing,  equalizing  and  collecting 
taxes  voted  for  furnishing  additional  school  facilities,  in  sec- 
tions ten  and  eleven  of  this  Act.  The  taxes  so  levied  shall 
include  a  sum  sufficient  to  pay  the  cost  of  assessing  and 
collecting. 

SEC.  9.     The  Board  of  Trustees,  or  Board  of  -Education,  of  B°hu0n0^money 
each  city,  town  and  district,  may  use  the  moneys  from  the  may  be  used. 
County  School  Funds  to  purchase  sites,  build  or  rent  school 
houses,  to  purchase  libraries,  and  to  pay  teachers  or  contin- 
gent expenses,  as  they  may  deem  proper. 

SEC.  10.  The  Board  of  Trustees  of  any  school  district 
may,  when  in  their  judgment  it  is  advisable,  call  an  election  tax. 
and  submit  to  the  qualified  electors  of  the  district  the  ques- 
tion whether  a  tax  shall  be  raised  to  furnish  additional  school 
facilities  for  said  district,  or  to  keep  any  school  or  schools  in 
such  district  open  for  a  longer  period  than  the  ordinary  funds 
will  allow,  or  for  building  an  additional  school  house  or 
houses,  or  for  any  two  or  all  of  these  purposes.  Such  elec- 
tion shall  be  called  by  posting  notices  in  three  of  the  most 
public  places  in  the  district  for  twenty  days,  and  also  if 
there  be  a  newspaper  in  the  county,  by  advertisement  therein 
once  a  week  for  three  weeks.  Said  notice  shall  contain  time 
and  place  of  holding  the  election,  ithe  amount  of  money  pro- 
posed to  be  raised  and  the  purpose  or  purposes  for  which  it  is 
intended  to  be  used.  The  Trustees  shall  appoint  three  judges  Election 
to  conduct  the  election,  and  it  shall  be  held  in  all  other 
respects  as  nearly  as  practicable  in  conformity  with  the 
general  election  law.  At  such  election  the  ballot  shall  con- 
tain the  words,  "  Tax — Yes,"  or  "  Tax — No."  If  a  majority 
of  the  votes  cast  are  "  Tax — Yes,"  the  officers  of  the  election 
shall  certify  the  fact  to  the  County  Commissioners,  together 
with  a  statement  of  the  amount  of  money  proposed  to  be 
raised,  who  shall  ascertain  the  necessary  percentage  on  the 
property  of  said  district  as  shown  by  the  last  assessment 
made  thereof  after  equalization,  to  raise  the  amount  of 
money  voted,  and  shall  add  it  to  the  next  county  tax  to  be 
collected  on  the  property  aforesaid;  and  the  same  shall  be 
paid  into  the  county  treasury  as  a  special  deposit  in  favor  of 
said  school  district,  to  be  drawn  in  the  same  manner  as  other 
school  moneys;  provided,  if  in  any  school  district  the  School 
Trustees  shall  certify  to  the  County  Commissioners  that  the 
State  and  county  money  to  which  any  district  is  entitled  is 


20  SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  NEVADA. 

not  sufficient  to  keep  school  open  in  such  district  up  to  the 
date  when  State  and  county  taxes  shall  become  due,  the  tax 
provided  for  in  this  section  shall  be  due  and  payable  to  the 
Assessor  of  such  county  in  which  the  tax  is  levied,  immedi- 
ately after  he  shall  make  the  assessment  and  demand  for 
payment  of  the  tax;  provided,  the  owner  of  the  property 
shall,  if  he  deem  the  assessment  too  high,  have  the  privilege 
of  submitting  the  assessment  to  the  Board  of  County  Corn- 
Equalization  missioners  for  equalization  within  ten  days  after  demand 
made  for  the  payment  of  the  tax,  and  the  County  Commis- 
sioners, within  five  days  after  complaint  made  to  them,  shall 
meet  and  determine  the  correct  valuation  of  the  property 
assessed,  and  may  change  the  same  by  adding  to  or  deduct- 
ing from  the  sum  fixed  either  by  the  owner  or  Assessor,  and 
upon  notice  to  the  owner  of  the  result  of  their  equalization 
the  tax  shall  be  immediately  payable  to  the  Assessor,  and  if 
not  paid  shall  become  deliquent;  and  all  taxes  so  assessed  as 
Taxes  in  this  Act  provided,  shall  constitute  a  lien  on  the  property 

SeS8tit  l  charged  therewith,  from  the  date  of  the  levy  thereof  by  the 
County  Commissioners,  or  entry  thereof  on  the  assessment 
roll  by  the  County  Auditor,  until  the  same  are  paid,  and 
thereafter  if  allowed  to  become  delinquent  shall  be  enforced 
in  the  same  manner  as  now  provided  by  law  for  the  collec- 
tion of  State  and  county  taxes. 

State  vs.  Yellow  Jacket  S.  M.  Co.,  5  Nev.  415. 

SEC.  11.     If  for  any  reason  said  tax  is  not  added  to  the 
in  case  of       county  tax  by  the  County  Commissioners,  the  County  Audi- 
faaure  to       j.Qr  shan  enter  it  on  the  assessment  roll  to  be  charged  against 
the  property  of  that  district,  on  application  from  the  Trus- 
tees of  said  district. 

SEC.  12.  All  taxes  assessed,  as  in  this  Act  provided,  shall 
school  tax  a  constitute  a  lien  on  the  property  charged  therewith  from  the 
date  of  the  levy  thereof  by  the  County  Commissioners,  or 
entry  thereof  on  the  assessment  roll  by  the  County  Auditor, 
until  the  same  are  paid;  and  their  payment,  if  allowed  to 
become  delinquent,  shall  be  enforced  in  the  same  manner. 

SEC.  13.     After  a  school  shall  have  been  maintained  free 
whei?  to  all  pupils  six  months  of  the  current  school  year,  the  Trus- 

a8™88e?a,™ay  tees  of  any  district  shall  have  power,  at  their  discretion,  to 
assess  such  rate  bills  of  tuition  as  they  may  deem  necessary 
for  the  payment  of  teachers'  salaries,  in  addition  to  the  pub- 
lic moneys  of  such  district.  Said  rate  bills  of  tuition  shall  be 
made  out  by  said  Board  of  Trustees  against  all  persons  send- 
ing children  to  school,  in  proportion  to  the  number  of  chil- 
dren sent,  and  the  time  of  attendance  of  said  children;  and 
the  Board  of  Trustees  shall  exempt  such  indigent  persons 
from  the  payment  of  such  rate  bills  as  they  may  consider 
entitled  to  such  exemption.  Any  person  refusing  or  neglect- 
ing to  pay  said  bills  shall  be  excluded  from  the  benefits  of 
said  school,  in  such  manner  as  the  Board  of  Trustees,  with 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  NEVADA.  21 

the  advice  and  consent  of  the  public  school  teachers,  may 
determine.  

ARTICLE   VII. 

SCHOOL  CENSUS   MARSHAL. 

SECTION  1 .     It  is  the  duty  of  the  Census  Marshal : 

First — To  take  annually,  between  the  first  and  thirty-first  census 

c      n     i  -i  i  i          •    V.L  Marshal, 

days  of  May,  inclusive,  a  census  of  all  children  under  eighteen  duties  or. 
years  of  age  and  over  six  years,  who  are  residents  of  his  dis- 
trict on  the  first  day  of  May. 

Second — To  report  the  result  of  his  labors  to  the  County 
Superintendent  of  Schools  on  or  before  the  fifteenth  day  of 
June  in  each  year. 

Third — He  shall,  when  practicable,  visit  each  habitation, 
home,  residence,  domicile  or  place  of  abode  in  his  district, 
;uul  by  actual  observation  and  investigation  enumerate  the 
census  children  of  the  same. 

SEC.  2.  Whenever  a  district  is  found  lying  partly  in  two 
adjoining  counties,  the  Census  Marshal  must  report  to  each 
County  Superintendent  the  number  of  children  in  each 
county. 

SEC.  3.     His  report  must  be  made  under  oath,  upon  blanks  what  report 
furnished  by  the  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction,  and  mU8t  sbow- 
must  show: 

First — The  number,  age,  sex,  color  and  nationality  of  the 
children  listed. 

Second — The  name  of  the  parents  or  guardians  of  said 
children. 

Third — Such  other  facts  as  the  Superintendent  of  Public 
Instruction  may  designate. 

Fourth — The  Census  Marshal  shall  have  power  to  admin- 
ister oath  to  parents  or  guardians. 

Fifth — If  at  any  time  the  County  Superintendent  has 
reason  to  believe  that  a  correct  report  has  not  been  returned, 
he  may  appoint  a  Census  Marshal,  have  the  census  retaken, 
and  the  compensation  for  the  same  shall  be  audited  by  the 
County  Commissioners  and  paid  out  of  the  County  General 
Fund. 

SEC.  4.  He  must  include  in  his  report  all  children  of  the 
district  that  are  absent  attending  institutions  of  learning, 
and  whose  parents  or  guardians  are  residents  of  the  district. 

SEC.  5.     He  must  not  include  in  his  report  non-resident  {JJ/^JJJj not 
children   who    are   attending   in  his  district  institutions  of 
learning,  benevolent   institutions,  such    as  deaf  and  dumb, 
blind    and    orphan    asylums,    nor    any    other    children    not 
actually  residing  in  his  district. 

SEC.  6.  The  compensation  of  the  Census  Marshal  must  be 
audited  by  the  County  Commissioners  and  paid  as  other 
claims  out  of  the  General  Fund  of  the  county. 

SEC.  7.     If  the  Census  Marshal  neglect  or  refuse  to  make 


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Neglect 
of  duty 
punished. 


Indian 
children  not 
included. 


Penalty. 


County 
Superin- 
tendent to 
appoint 
Board  of 
Examiners. 


Shall  grant 
certificates. 


hig  report  at  the  time  and  in  the  manner  herein  required, 
and  to  perform  any  other  duty  devolving  upon  him,  he  must 
be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and,  on  conviction,  be 
punished  by  a  fine  in  any  amount  not  exceeding  one  hun- 
dred dollars  or  imprisonment  not  exceeding  ten  days. 

SEC.  8.  The  School  Census  Marshals,  in  the  various  school 
districts  of  the  State,  shall  not  include  in  their  enumeration 
of  children  between  the  ages  of  six  and  eighteen  years  any 
Indian  children  not  attending  public  school. 

SEC,  9.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Superintendent  of 
Public  Instruction,  and  the  various  County  Superintendents, 
to  cause  the  arrest  and  prosecution  of  any  person  who  shall 
violate  the  provisions  of  this  Act.  And  any  person  convicted 
of  such  violation  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  of  not  less  than 
twenty  (20)  nor  more  than  three  hundred  (300)  dollars,  or  by 
imprisonment  in  the  county  jail  for  not  less  than  ten  nor 
more  than  sixty  days,  or  by  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment. 

Sections  8  and  9  as  amended  Stats.  1897,  p.  115. 


Must  pass 

satisfactory 

examination 


ARTICLE   VIII. 

COUNTY  BOARD   OF  EXAMINATION. 

SECTION  1.  The  County  Superintendent  shall  appoint  two 
competent  persons  who,  with  himself,  shall  be  and  constitute 
a  Board  of  Examination,  of  which  he  shall  be  Chairman. 
Said  Board  shall  be  constituted  for  the  purpose  of  examining 
applicants  for  teachers'  certificates  and  granting  certificates 
of  qualification  for  teaching  in  the  public  schools.  They 
shall  hold  examinations  at  such  times  as  may  be  provided  by 
law,  and  be  governed  by  such  rules  and  regulations  as  the 
State  Board  of  Education  may  from  time  to  time  direct. 
They  shall  grant  certificates,  except  as  hereinafter  provided, 
to  such  persons  only  as  shall  pass  a  satisfactory  examination. 
The  certificate  so  granted  shall  remain  in  force  as  specified 
in  this  section,  unless  revoked  for  incompetency,  immorality 
or  gross  neglect  of  duty.  Said  Board  shall  have  power  to 
grant  certificates  of  the  following  grades:  High  school  grade, 
for  teaching  a  high  school,  which  shall  be  good  for  four  years; 
grammar  grade,  for  teaching  unclassified  and  grammar 
schools,  which  shall  be  good  for  three  years;  primary  grade, 
for  teaching  a  primary  school,  which  shall  be  good  for  two 
years.  High  school  and  grammar  certificates  shall  entitle 
the  holders  to  teach  in  high  schools  and  grammar  schools 
respectively;  a  primary  certificate  shall  not  entitle  the  holder 
to  teach  any  class  or  classes  pursuing  high  school  branches. 
The  certificate  provided  for  in  this  section  shall  be  issued  to 
such  persons  only  as  pass  a  satisfactory  examination  in  the 
branches  of  studies  pursued  in  each  specified  grade  of  the 
public  schools,  and  such  additional  studies  as  the  State  Board 
of  Education  may  direct,  and  shall  have  given  evidence  of 
good  moral  character  and  of  fitness  for  teaching.  The  cer- 


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tificate  shall  be  signed  by  a  majority  of  the  Board  of  Exam- 
ination. The  Board  of  Examination  shall  have  power  to 
renew  the  high  school  or  grammar  certificate  of  any  person 
successfully  teaching  in  the  county;  provided,  that  the  certifi- 
cate of  no  one  not  thus  engaged  shall  be  renewed.  County 
certificates  made  valid  for  all  the  counties  of  this  State 
shall  be  accepted  in  all  the  counties.  [As  amended  Stats. 
1895,  p.  87.]  

ARTICLE   IX. 

EXAMINATIONS   FOR  TEACHERS'    COUNTY    CERTIFICATES. 

[Stats.  1893,  p.  102.] 

SECTION  1.  Examinations  for  teachers'  certificates  in  this  Time  held. 
State  shall  be  held  in  the  several  counties  semi-annually, 
beginning  on  the  second  Monday  in  January  and  July,  and 
continuing  not  more  than  three  days  at  any  one  examina- 
tion; provided,  that  the  interest  of  the  schools  in  any  county 
requires  such  examinations.  Examinations  shall  not  be  held 
at  other  times  than  are  herein  specified,  except  with  the  con- 
sent and  authorization  of  the  State  Board  of  Education.  [As 
amended  Stats.  1895,  p.  15.] 

SEC.  2.  The  questions  used  for  written  work  in  teachers'  ^stlon8' 
examinations  shall  be  prepared  by  the  State  Board  of  Educa-  prepared, 
tion,  and  shall  be  uniform  throughout  this  State.  Such 
examination  questions  shall  be  forwarded  to  the  various 
County  Superintendents  by  the  State  Superintendent  of 
Public  Instruction,  so  as  to  reach  their  destination  on  or 
before  the  dates  hereinbefore  specified.  Such  questions  shall 
be  sent  under  seal  of  the  State  Board  of  Education,  and 
shall  not  be  opened  by  County  Superintendents  or  others 
until  the  first  day  of  the  examination  for  which  they  are 
prepared.  Questions  shall  be  used  in  the  order  directed  by 
the  State  Board  of  Education. 

SEC.  3.    Examination  papers  of  applicants  shall  be  graded  Disposition 
by  the  County  Boards  of  Examination,  and  shall  be  kept  on  examination 
file  in  the  offices  of  the  County  Superintendents  for  such  time  PaPers- 
as  the  State  Board  of  Education  may  direct.    All  applicants 
shall  reach  such  standing  as  the  State  Board  may  require  in 
written  examinations  in  order  to  obtain  a  certificate.     The 
County  Boards  of  Examination  may  give  such  oral  examina- 
tions additional  to  the  written  as  they  may  deem  proper,  and 
.  they  shall  keep  an  accurate  record  of  standings  made  in  both 
written  and  oral  examinations. 

SEC.  4.     The  State  Board  of  Education  shall  not  indorse  certificates 
county  certificates  submitted  to  them  for  such  purpose  for  use 
in  other  counties  until  the  State  Superintendent  is  satisfied  wnen- 
from  an  inspection  of  the  examination  papers  of  the  person 
holding  such  certificate  that  such  indorsement  should  be  made. 
The  County  Superintendent  who  recommends  to  the  State 
Board  of  Education  that  a  certificate  should  be  indorsed  or 


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SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  NEVADA. 


Certificates 
annulled. 


Compen- 
sation of 
Board  of 
Examiners. 


County 
primary 
school 
certificate. 


County 
grammar 
school 
certificate. 


County 
high  school 
certificate. 


On  applying 
for  higher 
grade. 


made  good  for  other  counties  than  his  own  must  forward  to 
the  State  Superintendent,  with  such  recommendation,  the 
original  papers  of  the  applicant,  with  the  gradings  given  in 
both  written  and  oral  work.  The  certificate  so  submitted  of 
any  person  whose  papers  are  found  deficient  in  merit  shall  be 
canceled  by  the  State  Board  of  Education,  and  the  County 
Superintendent  of  the  county  in  which  it  was  issued  shall  be 
immediately  notified  of  such  action. 

SEC.  5.  [Repealed  by  implication.  Stats.  1895,  p.  87.] 
SEC.  6.  Members  of  County  Boards  of  Examination  shall 
be  paid  from  the  General  School  Funds  of  their  respective 
counties  such  reasonable  compensation  as  the  County  Super- 
intendent shajl  allow;  provided,  that  such  compensation  shall 
not  exceed  five  dollars  per  day.  County  Superintendents  are 
hereby  authorized  to  draw  their  orders  upon  the  County  Aud- 
itors of  their  respective  counties  in  payment  thereof.  No 
County  Superintendent  shall  receive  for  his  services  in  exam- 
ining teachers  any  compensation  additional  to  his  salary. 

EXAMINATION  SUBJECTS— COUNTY  CERTIFICATES. 

[Stats.  1895,  p.  110.] 

SECTION  1.  The  county  primary  school  certificate,  good 
for  two  years,  shall  be  issued  upon  satisfactory  examination 
in  the  following  subjects,  and  shall  entitle  the  holder  to  teach 
in  any  school  in  which  only  primary  branches  are  taught: 
Orthography,  reading,  grammar,  written  arithmetic,  mental 
arithmetic,  penmanship,  physiology,  history  of  the  United 
States,  civil  government,  geography,  current  news,  drawing, 
theory  and  practice  of  teaching,  and,  at  the  discretion  of  the 
State  Board  of  Education,  music  and 'the  elements  of  chem- 
istry and  physics. 

SEC.  2.  The  county  grammar  school  certificate,  good  for 
three  years,  shall  be  issued  upon  satisfactory  examination  in 
the  following  subjects,  and  shall  entitle  the  holder  to  teach  in 
primary,  grammar  or  unclassified  schools:  All  the  subjects 
designated  for  county  primary  school  certificates,  and  in 
addition  thereto,  algebra,  the  first  and  second  books  of  plane 
geometry,  English  history,  bookkeeping,  physical  geography, 
physics,  chemistry,  and  methods  of  teaching. 

SEC.  3.  The  county  high  school  certificate,  good  for  four 
years,  shall  entitle  the  holder  to  teach  in  any  school,  and 
shall  be  issued  upon  satisfactory  examination  in  all  the  sub- 
jects mentioned  in  sections  one  and  two  of  this  Act,  and,  in 
addition  thereto,  botany,  Latin,  general  history,  English 
literature,  plane  geometry,  astronomy,  rhetoric,  civil  govern- 
ment, and  the  history  and  methods  of  teaching. 

SEC.  4.  Applicants  who  have  taught  successfully  under 
any  grade  of  certificate  issued  under  this  Act  shall,  when 
applying  for  the  next  higher  grade,  be  required  to  take  only 
the  studies  of  that  grade;  provided,  that  any  person,  holding 
a  county  primary  school  certificate,  in  applying  for  a  county 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF   NEfTA^Jt*!  Y  j[  25 

\^ 

grammar   school  certificate,   need  take  otTry- the  additional 
branches  named  in  section  two  of  this  Act. 

SEC.  5.    No  certificate  authorized  by  this  Act  shall  be  issued  No  certificate 

,  .     ,  »    ^  in  T  •    i     to  persons 

to  persons  under  sixteen  years  of  age;  nor  shall  any  high  under  IB 
school  certificate  be  issued  to  any  person  who  shall  not  have  years 
successfully  taught  at  least  twelve  months. 

SEC.  6.     Examinations  for  certificates  named  in  this  Act 
shall  be  conducted  by  the  County  Boards  of  Examination,.  £ountcted  by 
under  such  rules  and  restrictions  as  the  State  Board  of  Edu-  Boards, 
cation  may  prescribe. 

SEC.  7.  The  County  Board  of  Examination  may  renew 
the  certificate  of  any  person  successfully  engaged  in  teaching 
in  the  county;  provided,  that  after  the  year  eighteen  hundred 
and  ninety-seven  a  primary  school  certificate  shall  not  be 
subject  to  renewal. 

SEC.  8.  As  the  county  certificates  of  the  first  and  second  certificates  or 
grade,  in  force  at  the  passage  of  this  Act,  expire,  the  County 
Board  of  Examination  may  issue,  without  examination,  to 
the  persons  holding  the  same,  certificates  of  equivalent  grade 
as  named  in  this  Act;  provided,  that  high  school  certificates 
shall  be  thus  issued  only  to  those  teaching  in  high  schools. 


ARTICLE    X. 

EDUCATIONAL  AND   LIFE   DIPLOMAS. 

SECTION  1.     The  State  Board  of  Education  shall  grant  a  TO  grant  life 
life   diploma    to   any  resident  of  the  State  of   Nevada  who  diploma- 
shall  present  evidence  of  having  taught  successfully  and  con- 
tinuously in  the  public  schools  of  the  State  of  Nevada  for  a 
period  of  ten  years. 

SEC.  2.  A  life  diploma  granted  under  the  first  section  of 
this  Act  shall  be  of  the  same  grade  as  the  certificate  held  by 
the  applicant  at  the  time  of  application  for  the  diploma,  and 
shall  entitle  the  holder  thereof  to  teach  in  any  school  in  the 
State  of  Nevada  of  a  grade  corresponding  to  the  grade  of  the 
certificate  upon  which  the  life  diploma  was  granted. 

Sees.  1  and  2,  Stats.  1897,  p.  29. 

SEC.  3.     State  educational  diplomas  may  be  issued  to  such  Diplomas, to 
persons  only  as  have  held  a  State  certificate  of  high  school  w 
grade,  or  a  county  certificate  of  high  school  grade  for  at  least 
one  year,  and*  shall  furnish  satisfactory  evidence  of  having 
been   successfully   engaged   in   teaching   at   least   forty-five 
months  in  the  public  schools,  twenty  months  of  which  must 
have  been  in  Nevada.     Every  application  for  an  educational 
diploma  must  be  accompanied  by  a  certified  copy  of  a  resolu- 
tion adopted  by  the  Board  of  School  Trustees  of  the  district 
in  which  the  applicant  has  taught  at  least  one   year.     An  Educational 
educational  diploma  shall  entitle  the  holder  thereof  to  teach  dipl01 
in  any  public  school  in  the  State  of  Nevada  without  further 
examination. 


26  SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  NEVADA. 

SEC.  4.     Life  diplomas  may  be  issued  on  all  and  the  same 

Lite  conditions  as  educational  diplomas,  except  that  the  applicant 

ias'      must  furnish  satisfactory  evidence  of  having  been  successfully 

engaged  in  teaching  seventy-two  months  in  public  schools, 

twenty-four   of   which   must  have  been  in  Nevada.     A  life 

diploma   shall   entitle   the   holder   thereof  to  teach  in  any 

school  in  the  State  of  Nevada  without   any  further   exam- 

.    i nation. 

SEC.  5.  To  the  graduates  of  the  Nevada  State  Normal 
Cnf  Scno°l>  wno  no^  State  high  school  certificates,  the  State 
Board  of  Education  shall  grant  a  life  diploma  of  high  school 
grade  when  said  graduates  shall  have  completed  at  least 
forty-five  months  of  successful  instruction  in  public  schools. 
To  all  graduates  of  the  Nevada  State  Normal  School  who 
hold  a  State  grammar  school  certificate,  the  State  Board  of 
Education  shall  grant  a  life  diploma  of  the  grammar  grade 
when  said  graduates  shall  have  completed  at  least  forty-five 
months  of  successful  instruction  in  public  schools. 

SEC.  6.     Graduates   of   the   Nevada  State  Normal  School 
Diplomas  of   who  have  taught  successfully  for  the  time*  specified  in  this 
A.ct>  on  or  before  January  1,  1900,  shall  be  entitled  to  life 
diplomas  of  undesignated  grade. 
Sees.  3,  4,  5  and  6,  Stats.  1895,  p.  82. 

SEC.  7.     The  State  Board  of  Education  shall  grant  a  life 
Board  of        diploma  to  any  resident  of  this  State  of  good  moral  character, 

Education  to  ,          ,      ,,J  . .    .  .  ,e  .    , 

grant  Hfe  and  who  shall  present  satisiactory  evidence  of  having  taken 
diplomas.  a  course  jn  pedagogics  and  received  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of 
Arts  from  any  university  or  college  situated  within  the 
United  States,  and  of  reputable  standing;  provided,  such 
person  shall  have  been  an  actual  resident  of  the  State  of 
Nevada  for  at  least  five  years  next  preceding  his  or  her  hav- 
ing entered  the  university  or  college  in  which  the  course  in 
pedagogics  was  taken,  and  from  which  the  degree  of  Bachelor 
of  Arts  was  received.  [Stats.  1897,  p.  61.] 


.      ARTICLE   XL 

TEACHERS. 

SECTION  1.  No  teacher  shall  be  entitled  to  receive  any  por- 
tion  of  the  public  school  moneys  as  compensation  for  serv- 
o?teacher°n  ices  rendered,  unless  such  teacher  shall  have  been  legally 
employed  by  the  Board  of  Trustees,  nor  unless  such  teacher 
shall  have  had  a  certificate  from  the  State  Board  of  Educa- 
tion or  from  the  County  Board  of  Examination,  in  full  force 
and  effect,  nor  unless  such  teacher  shall  have  made  a  full 
and  correct  report,  in  the  form  and  manner  prescribed  by 
law,  to  the  County  Superintendent,  and  to  the  Board  of 
School  Trustees. 

SEC.  2.  Each  and  every  teacher  employed  in  this  State, 
whose  compensation  is  payable  out  of  the  public  funds,  shall 
take  and  subscribe  to  the  oath  as  prescribed  by  the  fifteenth 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  NEVADA.  27 

article  of  the  State  Constitution  before  entering  upon  the  dis- 
charge of  the  duties  of  such  teacher.  Such  oath,  when  so 
taken  and  subscribed  to,  shall,  if  that  of  teacher  in  the  State 
University,  be  filed  in  the  office  of  the  Board  of  Regents;  if 
of  any  other  class  of  teachers,  the  same  shall  be  filed  in  the 
office  of  the  County  Superintendent  of  Schools.  [As  amended 
Stats.  1887,  p.  141.] 

The  oath  is  as  follows: 

I,  -7-r—  — ,  do  solemnly  swear  (or  affirm)  that  I  T2J£her>8 

will  support,  protect  and  defend  the  Constitution  and  Govern-  °l 
ment  of  the  United  States,  and  the  Constitution  and  Govern- 
ment of  the  State  of  Nevada,  against  all  enemies,  whether 
domestic  or  foreign,  and  that  1  will  bear  true  faith,  alle- 
giance and  loyalty  to  the  same,  any  ordinance,  resolution  or 
law  of  any  State  Convention  or  Legislature  to  the.  contrary 
notwithstanding;  and  further,  that  I  do  this  with  a  full  deter- 
mination, pledge  and  purpose,  without  any  mental  reservation 
or  evasion,  whatsoever.  And  do  further  solemnly  swear  (or 
affirm)  that  I  have  not  fought  a  duel,  nor  sent  or  accepted  a 
challenge  to  fight  a  duel,  nor  been  a  second  to  either  party, 
nor  in  any  manner  aided  or  assisted  in  such  duel,  nor  been 
knowingly  the  bearer  of  such  challenge  or  acceptance,  since 
the  adoption  of  the  Constitution  of  the  State  of  Nevada,  and 
that  I  will  not  be  so  engaged  or  concerned,  directly  or  indi- 
rectly, in  or  about  any  such  duel,  during  my  continuance  in 
office.  And,  further,  that  I  will  well  and  faithfully  perform 
all  the  duties  of  the  office  of  -  —  on  which  I  am  about  to 
enter  (if  an  oath),  "So  help  me  God,"  (if  an  affirmation) 
"Under  the  pains  and  penalties  of  perjury." 

Sworn    and   subscribed  to  before  me,  a  -  -  of  the 

county  of  -  -  and  State  of   Nevada,  this  -     -  day  of 

— ,  Anno  Domini  189 — . 


SEC.  3.  All  teachers  of  public  schools  shall  keep  a  register 
of  all  the  scholars  attending  such  schools,  their  age,  daily 
attendance  and  time  of  continuance  at  school,  and  such 
further  statistics  as  may  be  required  by  the  Superintendent 
of  Public  Instruction,  and  shall  deliver  such  register,  at  the 
close  of  their  term  of  employment,  to  the  Board  of  Trustees 
of  .their  district. 

ARTICLE   XII. 

TEACHERS'   INSTITUTES. 
SECTION  1.     The  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction,  by  Teachers- 
and  with  the  consent  of  the  State  Board  of  Education,  shall 
have  power  to  convene  two  State  Teachers'  Institutes  annu- 
ally, in  different  sections  of  the  State,  and  shall  preside  over 
and  regulate  the  exercises  of  the  same  in  pursuance  of  the 
provisions  of  this  Act.     Teachers  who  attend  one  such  Insti- 
tute shall  not  be  required  to  attend  another  in  the  same  year. 


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SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  NEVADA. 


Sessions  shall  not  be  less  than  three  days  nor  more  than  ten 
'  days. 

SEC.  2.  The  purpose  of  such  Institutes  shall  be  to  train 
purposes  of.  and  instruct  the  teachers  of  the  State,  so  far  as  may  be  found 
necessary,  in  practical  and  scientific  methods  of  work,  to  sim- 
plify and  unify,  so  far  as  may  be  practicable,  the  courses  of 
study  in  the  public  schools,  and  in  general  to  raise  the 
standard  of  educational  work  and  qualification  on  the  part 
of  the  teachers.  Class  work  in  common  school  branches  shall 
be  a  prominent  feature  of  all  Institute  programmes.  The 
State  Superintendent  shall  have  power  to  engage  such 
lecturers  and  instructors  as  he  may  deem  advisable  to  aid 
him  in  conducting  the  exercises. 

SEC.  3.  All  teachers  shall  be  required  to  attend  and 
participate  in  the  proceedings  of  the  Institute  held  in  the  sec- 
tion of  the  State  wherein  they  may  be  engaged  in  teaching, 
and  without  loss  of  salary  for  the  time  thus  employed. 

Sees.  1, 2  and  3,  Stats.  1893,  p.  108. 

SEC.  4.  The  County  Superintendent  shall  have  the  power 
to  call  one  or  more  Teachers'  Institutes  annually,  and  the 
expenses  of  such  Institutes  shall  be  paid  out  of  the  County 
General  Fund,  upon  the  warrant  of  the  County  Superintend- 
ent; provided,  that  the  Board  of  Commissioners  authorize  such 
Institutes,  upon  the  application  of  the  County  Superintend- 
ent; and  provided,  that  the  expenses  of  such  Institute  shall 
not  exceed  the  sum  of  one  hundred  dollars  in  any  one  year. 


Teachers 
required  to 
attend. 


Expenses  of 
Institutes, 
how  paid. 


School  year 
defined. 


Printing 
ordered. 


Oaths. 


School 
month 
defined. 


Sectarianism 
prohibited. 


ARTICLE   XIII. 

MISCELLANEOUS  PROVISIONS. 

SECTION  1.  The  public  school  year  shall  commence  on  the 
first  day  of  September,  and  shall  end  on  the  last  day  of  August, 

SEC.  2.  Any  printing  required  under  this  Act  shall  be 
executed  in  the  form  and  manner  and  at  the  prices  of  other 
State  printing,  and  shall  be  paid  for  in  like  manner  out  of 
the  General  Fund. 

SEC.  3.  The  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction  and 
the  County  Superintendent  of  Public  Schools  are  hereby 
authorized  to  administer  the  oath  (or  affirmation)  to  teachers, 
and  all  other  oaths  (or  affirmations)  relating  to  public  schools. 

SEC.  4.  Except  when  special  agreement  is  made,  a  school 
month  shall  consist  of  four  weeks  of  five  days  each,  and 
teachers  shall  be  paid  only  for  the  time  in  which  they  are 
actually  engaged  in  teaching;  provided,  that  when  an  inter- 
mission of  less  than  six  days  is  ordered  by  the  Trustees  no 
deduction  of  salary  shall  be  made  therefor. 

SEC.  5.  No  books,  tracts  or  papers  of  a  sectarian  or  denomi- 
national character  shall  be  used  or  introduced  in  any  school 
established  under  the  provisions  of  this  Act;  nor  shall  any 
sectarian  or  denominational  doctrines  be  taught  therein;  nor 


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shall  any  school  whatever  receive  any  of  the  public  school 
funds  which  has  not  been  taught  in  accordance  with  the  pro- 
visions of  this  Act. 

SEC.  6.     All  lots,  buildings  or  other  school  property,  owned  faxxe^?0tnfrom 
by  any  district,  town  or  city,  and  devoted  to  public  school 
purposes,  shall  be,  and  the  same  are  hereby  exempted  from 
taxation,  and  from  sale  on  any  execution,  or  other  writ  or 
order  in  the  nature  of  an  execution. 


ARTICLE   XIV. 

PROTECTION  OF  PUPILS  AND  PEACE  OF  PUBLIC  SCHOOLS. 

[Stats.  1893,  p.  106.J 

SECTION  1 .     It  shall  be  a  misdemeanor  for  any  person  or  Misdemeanor 
persons  to  detain,  beat,  whip  or  otherwise  interfere  with  any 
pupil  or  pupils  attending  any  public  school  in  the  State  of 
Xevada  on  his,  her  or  their  way   to   or   from    such    school 
against  the  will  of  such  pupil  or  pupils. 

SEC.  2.     It  shall  be  a  misdemeanor  for  any  person  or  per-  Misdemeanor 
sons  to  disturb  the  peace  of  any  public  school  in  the  State  of  £?hooitur 
Xevada  by  using  vile  or  indecent  language,  or  by  threaten- 
ing or  assaulting  any  pupil  or  teacher  within  the  building  or 
grounds  of  such  school,  and  for  the  purpose  of  this  Act  the 
ground  of  every  public  school  in  the  State  of  Nevada  shall 
extend  to  a  distance  of  fifty  yards  in  all  directions  from  the 
school  building. 

SEC.  3.    Any  person  or  persons  convicted  of  a  misdemeanor  Penalty. 
under   either  of  the  foregoing  sections  of  this  Act  shall  be 
subject  to  a  fine   not   exceeding   three   hundred  .dollars   or 
imprisonment  in  the  county  jail  not  to  exceed  six  months,  or 
to  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment. 


ARTICLE   XV. 

TO   PREVENT   INJURY  TO  SCHOOL   PROPERTY. 
[Stats.  1895,  p.  63.] 

SKOTION  1.     It  shall  be  a  misdemeanor  for  any  person  or  injure  or 
persons  to  willfully  and  maliciously  injure,  mark  or  deface  bXidfngH. 
any  church  edifice,  school  house  or  other  building,  public  or 
private,  its  fixtures,  books  or  appurtenances,  or  to  commit 
any  nuisance  therein,  or  to  purposely  and  maliciously  commit 
any  trespass  upon  the  grounds  attached  thereto,  or  any  fix- 
tures placed  thereon,  or  any  enclosure  or  sidewalk  about  the 
same,  or  in  any  manner  to  maliciously  and  purposely  inter- 
fere with  or  disturb  those  peaceably  assembled  within  such 
building  or  buildings. 

SEC.  2.     Any  person  or  persons  convicted  of  a  misdemeanor  Penalty, 
under  the  foregoing  section  of  this  Act  shall  be  subject  to  a 
fine,  not  exceeding  two  hundred  dollars,  or  to  imprisonment 
in  the  county  jail  not  to  exceed  six  months,  or  to  both  such 
fine  and  imprisonment. 


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School 
holiday. 


Governor  to 
make  proc- 
lamation. 


ARTICLE   XVI. 

ARBOR  DAY. 

[Stats.  1887,  p.  51.] 

SECTION  1.  Arbor  Day  is  hereby  established  in  the  State 
of  Nevada,  and  shall  be  fixed  each  year  by  proclamation  of 
the  Governor  at  least  one  month  before  the  fixing  of  such 
date,  and  fit]  shall  be  observed  as  a  holiday  by  the  public 
[schools]  of  this  State;  provided,  that  nothing  in  this  Act 
shall  be  so  construed  as  making  this  a  legal  holiday,  so  far 
as  the  courts  and  civil  contracts  are  concerned. 

SEC.  2.  His  Excellency  the  Governor  is  requested  to  make 
proclamation  setting  forth  the  provisions  of  the  first  section 
of  this  statute,  and  recommending  that  Arbor  Day,  so  estab- 
lished, be  observed  by  the  people  of  the  State  in  [the]  plant- 
ing of  trees,  shrubs  and  vines,  in  the  promotion  of  forest 
growth  and  culture,  in  the  adornment  of  public  and  private 
grounds,  places  and  ways,  and  in  such  other  efforts  and 
undertakings  as  shall  be  in  harmony  with  the  character  of 
the  day  so  established. 


ARTICLE   XVII. 

EDUCATION  OF  DEAF,  DUMB  AND  BLIND.' 
SECTION  1.     The  Superintendent  of   Public  Instruction  is 
care  of  deaf,  authorized   and  required   to   make   arrangements   with   the 
dumb  and      j)irectors  of    the  Institution  for  the   Deaf   and    Dumb    and 
Blind,  at  San  Francisco  (now  Berkeley),  in  the  State  of  Cali- 
fornia, for  .the  admission,  support,  education  and  care  of  the 
deaf  and  dumb  and  blind  of  this  State,  and  for  that  purpose 
is   hereby    empowered  to  make    all   needful   contracts    and 
agreements  with  said  Directors  to  carry  out  the  provisions  of 
this  Act. 

SEC.  2.  Upon  the  application,  under  oath,  of  a  parent  or 
Qualification  nearest  friend  of  any  deaf,  dumb  or  blind  person,  resident  of 
of  applicant,  this  State,  setting  forth  that  by  reason  of  deafness,  dumbness 
or  blindness,  such  person  is  disqualified  from  being  taught 
by  the  ordinary  process  of  instruction,  and  that  the  parents 
or  guardian  of  said  person  are  unable  to  pay  for  his  or  her 
support  or  education  in  the  aforesaid  institution,  and  file  the 
same  with  the  Board  of  County  Commissioners  of  the  proper 
county,  and  said  Board  shall  be  satisfied  of  the  truth  thereof, 
and  such  Board  shall  have  made  application  to  the  Superin- 
tendent of  Public  Instruction  for  that  purpose,  it  shall  be 
the  duty  of  the  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction  to  issue 
a  certificate  to  that  effect;  which  certificate,  being  produced, 
shall  be  the  authority  Of  the  Directors  of  the  institution 
aforesaid  for  receiving  such  deaf  and  dumb  or  blind  person 
as  a  pupil, 

SEC.  3.     All  deaf  arid  dumb  or  blind  persons  between  the 
ages  of  eight  and  twenty-one  years,  that  are  not  mentally  or 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  NEVADA.  31 

physically  incapacitated  to  receive  an  education;  that  are  who  entitled 
free  from  contagious  or  offensive  diseases,  and  whose  parents  to  beneflts- 
or  guardians  reside  in  the  State  of  Nevada,  and  are  not  able 
to  pay  for  their  support  and  education  in  the  aforesaid  insti- 
tution, shall  be  entitled  to  the  benefits  intended  by  the  Act; 
and  it  is  hereby  made  the  duty  of  the  Board  of  County  Com- 
missioners of  such  county  to  make  provisions,  at  the  expense 
of  the  county  carrying  such  pupil,  to  the  office  of  the  Super- 
intendent of  Public  Instruction,  who  shall  make  necessary 
arrangements  for  carrying  the  pupil  to  the  institution  of 
instruction  before  mentioned,  at  the  expense  of  the  State, 
payable  out  of  the  fund  provided  this  Act. 


ARTICLE   XVIII. 

COMPULSORY  EDUCATION. 

SECTION  1.  Every  parent,  guardian  or  other  person  in  the  school 
State  of  Nevada,  having  control  or  charge  of  a  child  or  chil- 
dren,  between  the  ages  of  eight  and  fourteen  years,  shall  be 
required  to  send  such  child  or  children  to  a  public  school  for 
a  period  of  at  least  sixteen  weeks  in  each  school  year,  at  least 
eight  weeks  of  which  shall  be  consecutive,  unless  such  child 
or  children  are  excused  from  such  attendance  by  the  Board 
of  School  Trustees  of  the  school  district  in  which  such  par- 
ents or  guardians  reside,  upon  its  being  shown  to  their  satis- 
faction that  the  bodily  or  mental  condition  of  such  child  or 
children  has  been  such  as  to  prevent  his  or  her  or  their 
attendance  at  school,  or  application  to  study  for  the  period 
required,  or  that  such  child  or  children  are  taught  in  a  pri- 
vate school  or  at  home,  in  such  branches  as  are  usually 
taught  in  primary  schools,  or  have  already  acquired  the  ordi- 
nary branches  of  learning  taught  in  the  public  schools;  pro- 
vided, in  case  a  public  school  shall  not  be  taught  for  the 
period  of  sixteen  weeks,  or  any  part  thereof,  during  the  year, 
within  two  miles,  by  the  nearest  traveled  road,  of  the  resi- 
dence of  any  person  within  the  school  district,  he  or  she  shall 
not  be  liable  to  the  provisions  of  this  Act. 

SEC.  2..  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Board  of  School  Trus-  Trustees  to 
tees  of  each  school  district  in  the  State,  on  or  before  the  first 
Monday  in  September  of  each  year,  to  furnish  the  Principal 
of  each  public  school  taught  in  such  district  with  a  list  of  all 
children  resident  in  the  school  district,  between  the  ages  of 
eight  and  fourteen  years,  said  list  to  be  taken  from  the  report 
of  the  School  Census  Marshal.  At  the  beginning  of  each 
school  month  thereafter,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Principal 
of  each  school  in  such  district  to  report  to  the  Board  of  School 
Trustees  of  such  district,  the  names  of  all  children  attending 
school  during  the  previous  school  month;  when,  if  it  shall 
appear,  at  the  expiration  of  four  school  months,  to  the  Board 
of  School  Trustees,  that  any  parent,  guardian  or  other  person 


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Penalty 
for  non- 
compliance. 


Trustees  to 
furnish 
books,  etc., 
to  indigent 
children. 


Fines,  how 
disposed  of. 


County 
Sui'frin- 
tendent  to 
publish  this 
law. 


having  charge  or  control  of  any  child  or  children,  shall  have 
failed  to  comply  with  the  provisions  of  this  Act,  the  Board 
shall  cause  demand  to  be  made  upon  such  parent,  guardian 
or  other  person,  for  the  amount  of  the  penalty  hereinafter 
provided;  when,  if  such  parent,  guardian  or  other  person 
shall  neglect  or  refuse  to  pay  the  same  within  five  days  after 
the  making  of  said  demand,  the  Board  shall  commence  pro- 
ceedings, in  the  name  of  the  school  district,  for  the  recovery 
of  the  fine  hereinafter  provided,  before  any  Justice  of  the 
Peace  in  the  township  in  which  said  school  district  is  located; 
or,  if  there  shall  be  no  Justice  of  the  Peace  therein,  then 
before  the  nearest  Justice  of  the  Peace  in  the  county. 

SEC.  3.  Any  parent,  guardian  or  other  person  having  con- 
trol or  charge  of  any  child  or  children,  failing  to  comply  with 
the  provisions  of  this  Act,  shall  be  liable  to  a  fine  of  not  less 
than  fifty  dollars  nor  more  than  one  "hundred  dollars  for  the 
first  offense,  nor  less  than  one  hundred  dollars  nor  more  than 
two  hundred  dollars  •  for  the  second  and  each  subsequent 
offense,  besides  the  cost  of  collection. 

SEC.  4.  Whenever  it  shall  appear  to  the  satisfaction  of  the 
Board  of  School  Trustees  of  any  school  district  in  this  State 
that  the  parents,  guardians  or  other  persons  having  control 
and  charge  of  any  child  or  children  in  attendance  upon  the 
public  school  of  said  district,  in  accordance  with  the  provis- 
ions of  this  Act,  are  unable  to  procure  suitable  books,  station- 
ery, etc.,  for  such  child  or  children,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of 
such  Board  to  procure  or  cause  to  be  procured,  for  such  child 
or  children,  all  necessary  books,  stationery,  etc.,  the  same  to 
be  paid  for  out  of  the  fund  of  said  school  district,  in  the  same 
way  that  other  claims  against  the  school  district  are  now 
allowed  and  paid;  provided,  that  all  books,  stationery,  etc., 
purchased  under  the  provisions  of  this  Act  shall  be  deemed 
to  be  the  property  of  the  school  district,  to  be  under  the  care 
and  control  of  the  School  Trustees  when  not  in  actual  use. 

SEC.  5.  All  fines  collected  under  the  provisions  of  this 
Act  shall  be  paid  into  the  County  Treasury  on  account  of  the 
State  School  Fund. 

SEC.  6.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  County  Superintendent 
of  Public  Schools  in  each  county  in  this  State  to  cause  this 
law  to  be  published  in  some  newspaper  in  his  county,  if  there 
be  [one],  four  consecutive  times,  annually,  for  a  period  of  two 
years,  the  expense  of  such  publication  to  be  allowed  and  paid 
out  of  the  General  School  Fund  of  the  county.  The  Board 
of  School  Trustees  in  each  school  district  shall  cause  to  be 
posted,  annually  for  a  period  of  two  years,  in  three  public 
places  in  their  district,  notices  of  the  requirements  and  pen- 
alties of  this  law. 


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ARTICLE   XIX. 

GENERAL  PROVISIONS  RELATING  TO  SCHOOL  FUNDS  AND 

TAXES. 

SECTION  1.  The  principal  of  all  moneys  accruing  to  this  "  morneed 
State  from  the  sale  of  lands  heretofore  given  or  bequeathed, 
or  that  may  hereafter  be  given  or  bequeathed,  for  public 
school  purposes;  all  fines  collected  Under  the  penal  laws  of 
the  State;  two  per  cent  of  the  gross  proceeds  of  all  toll  roads 
and  bridges;  and  all  estates  that  may  escheat  to  the  State, 
shall  be  and  the  same  are  hereby  solemnly  pledged  for  edu- 
cational purposes,  and  shall  not  be  transferred  to  any  other 
fund  for  other  uses,  but  shall  constitute  an  irreducible  and 
indivisible  fund,  to  be  known  as  the  State  School  Fund,  the 
interest  accruing  from  which  shall  be  divided  semi-annually 
among  the  counties  in  this  State  entitled  by  the  provisions 
of  this  Act  to  receive  the  same,  in  proportion  to  the  ascer- 
tained number  of  persons  between  the  ages  of  six  and  eigh- 
teen years,  in  said  counties,  for  the  support  of  public  schools. 

SEC.  2.  No  portion  of  the  public  school  funds,  nor  of 
moneys  raised  by  State  tax,  or  specially  appropriated  for  the 
support  of  public  schools,  shall  be  devoted  to  any  other  object  • 
or  purpose;  nor  shall  any  portion  of  the  public  school  funds, 
nor  of  money  raised  by  State  tax  for  the  support  of  public 
schools,  be  in  any  way  segregated,  divided,  or  set  apart  for 
the  use  or  benefit  of  any  sectarian  or  secular  society  or  asso- 
ciation. 

SEC.  3.     The  school  moneys  distributed  to  the  various  coun-  state  funds, 
ties  of  this  State,  from  the  State  school  funds,  shall  not  be  how  used' 
used  for  any  other  purpose  than  the  payment  of  qualified 
teachers,  under  this  Act;  and  no  portion  of  said  funds  shall, 
either  directly  or  indirectly,  be  paid  for  the  erection  of  school 
houses,  the  use  of  school  rooms,  furniture,  or  any  other  con- 
tingent expenses  of  public  schools. 

SEC.  4.     It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  State  Treasurer  to  pay  state 
over  all  public  school  moneys  received  by  him  only  on  war-  payasl 
rants  of   the   State   Controller,   issued   upon   orders   of   the  warrants. 
Superintendent   of    Public   Instruction,   under   seal   of    the 
Board  of   Education,  in  favor  of  County  Treasurers,  or  on 
orders  of  the  State  Board  of  Education,  for  purposes  of  invest- 
ment, as  provided  in  section  three  of  this  Act,  which  orders, 
duly  endorsed,  shall  be  valid  vouchers  in  the  hands  of  the 
State  Controller  for  the  disbursement  of  public  school  moneys. 

SEC.  5.  All  school  moneys  due  each  county  in  the  State 
shall  be  paid  over  by  the  State  Treasurer  to  the  County  Treas- 
urers on  the  tenth  day  of  January  and  the  tenth  day  of  July 
of  each  yeur,  or  as  soon  thereafter  as  the  County  Treasurer 
may  apply  for  the  same,  upon  the  warrant  of  the  State  Con- 
troller, drawn  in  conformity  with  the  apportionment  of  the 
Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction,  as  provided  in  section 
five  of  this  Act. 

SEC.  6.    The  State  Controller  shall  keep  a  separate  and 


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Controller 
to  keep 
account. 


To  present 
statement. 


To  be  levied. 


No 

diminution 
of  proceeds 
allowed. 


State  school 
tax  levied. 


distinct  account  of-  the  Public  School  Fund,  and  of  the 
interest  and  income  thereof,  together  with  such  moneys  as 
shall  be  raised  by  State  tax,  or  special  appropriation,  or 
otherwise,  for  the  support  of  public  schools. 

SEC.  7.  The  State  Controller  shall,  on  or  before  the  tenth 
day  of  April  and  the  tenth  day  of  October  of  each  year,  make 
to  the  State  Board  of  Education  a  statement  of  the  securities 
belonging  to  the  State  School  Fund.  He  shall  also,  on  or 
before  the  tenth  day  of  January  and  the  tenth  day  of  July 
of  each  year,  render  to  the  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruc- 
tion a  statement  of  the  moneys  in  the  treasury  subject  to 
distribution  to  the  several  counties  of  the  State,  as  provided 
in  section  five  of  this  Act. 

SEC.  8.  The  Board  of  County  Commissioners  of  each  county 
shall  annually,  at  the  time  of  levying  other  county  taxes, 
levy  a  county  school  tax,  not  to  exceed  fifty  cents,  nor  less 
than  fifteen  cents,  on  each  one  hundred  dollars  valuation  of 
taxable  property,  which  tax  shall  be  added  to  the  county  tax, 
and  collected  in  the  same  manner,  and  paid  into  the  county 
treasury  as  a  special  deposit,  to  be  drawn  in  the  same  manner 
as  other  public  school  moneys;  and  should  said  County  Com- 
missioners fail  or  neglect  to  levy  said  tax  as  required,  it  shall 
be  the  duty  of  the  County  Auditor  to  add  such  tax  as  the 
County  Superintendent  of  Public  Schools  may  deem  sufficient, 
between  the  limits  of  fifteen  (15)  and  fifty  (50)  cents  on  each 
one  hundred  dollars  valuation  of  taxable  property  in  the 
county  to  the  assessment  roll,  to  be  collected  as  specified  in 
this  section. 

SEC.  9.  No  Tax  Collector  or  County  Treasurer  shall 
receive  any  fees  or  compensation  whatever  for  collecting, 
receiving,  keeping,  transporting  or  disbursing  any  school 
moneys  (except  what  may  be  specially  provided  for  in  this 
Act),  but  the  whole  moneys  collected,  as  provided  in  section 
forty-five  of  this  Act,  shall  be  paid  to  the  County  Treasurer, 
and  disbursed  by  him  according  to  law. 

SEC.  10.  An  ad  valorem  tax  of  one  half  of  one  mill  on  the 
dollar  of  all  taxable  property  in  the  State  is  hereby  levied, 
and  directed  to  be  collected  and  paid  in  the  same  manner  as 
other  State  taxes  are  required  to  be  paid;  and  said  tax 
shall  be  known  as  the  State  school  tax,  and  the  Board  of 
Commissioners  of  the  several  counties  shall,  annually,  at  the 
same  time  other  State  taxes  are  levied,  add  this  to  the  other 
taxes  provided  by  law  to  be  levied  and  collected,  and  it  shall 
be  annually  collected  at  the  same  time  and  in  the  same  man- 
ner as  other  State  taxes  are  collected,  and  if  from  any  reason 
whatever,  in  any  year,  said  taxes  are  not  levied  'as  herein 
required,  by  the  Board  of  County  Commissioners,  the  County 
Auditor  shall  enter  them  on  the  assessment  roll,  as  required 
by  law  for  other  taxes.  All  moneys  derived  from  the  tax 
herein  levied  shall  be  paid  into  the  State  School  Fund  and 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  NEVADA.  35 

be  apportioned  in  the  same  manner  as  other  money  in  that 
fund. 

SEC.  11.  There  shall  be  set  apart,  semi-annually,  five  per 
cent  out  of  all  moneys  received  as  State  tax  for  school  pur- 
poses; and  such  amount  shall  be  distributed  pro  rata,  and  be 
paid  according  to  the  provisions  of  section  fourteen  of  this 
Act. 

SEC.  12.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  County  Treasurer  of 
each  county: 

First — To  receive  and  hold  as  a  special  deposit  all  public 
school  moneys,  whether  received  by  him  from  the  State  Treas-  bold  and 
urer  or  raised  by  the  county  for  the  benefit  of  public  schools,  over  money- 
or  from  any  other  source,  and  to  keep  a  separate  account 
thereof  and  of  their  disbursements. 

Second — On  receiving  any  public  school  moneys  subject  to 
distribution,  to  notify  the  County  Superintendent  of  Public 
Schools  of  the  amount  thereof. 

Third — To  pay  over  all  public  school  moneys  received  by 
him  only  on  warrants  of  the  County  Auditor,  issued  upon 
orders  of  the  County  Superintendent  of  Public  Schools  of 
such  county;  which  orders  shall  be  valid  vouchers  in  the 
hands  of  the  County  Auditors  for  warrants  drawn  upon  such 
orders. 

Fourth — On  or  before  the  first  day  of  October,  annually,  to  county 
make  a  fall  report  to  the  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction 
of  the  public  school  moneys  received  into  the  county  treasury 
within  the  school  year  ending  on  the  last  day  of  August  next 
previous  thereto,  with  a  particular  statement  of  the  disburse- 
ments of  said  school  moneys,  and  of  any  amount  of  said  school 
moneys  which  remains  in  his  hands  for  distribution  at  the 
close  of  such  school  year,  designating  whether  of  State  or 
County  School  Fund;  and  in  case  of  failure  or  neglect  of  said 
County  Treasurer  to  make  such  report,  he  shall  forfeit,  for  the 
benefit  of  the  County  School  Fund,  the  sum  of  one  hundred 
dollars  from  his  official  compensation;  and  it  is  hereby  made 
the  duty  of  the  County  Commissioners,  or;  notice  from  the 
Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction  of  such  failure  or  neglect 
on  the  part  of  the  County  Treasurer,  to  deduct  one  hundred  Jjjjj'7  for 
dollars  from  his  compensation,  and  place  said  amount  to  the 
credit  of  the  County  School  Fund. 

SEC.  12.     From  and  after  the  passage  of  this  Act  the  State  Treasurer  to 
Treasurer    shall   be   the   legal   custodian  of    all  State  and  be  CU8todian 
National  securities  in  which  the  moneys  of  the  State  (irre- 
ducible)  School  Fund  of  the  State  of  Nevada,  are  or  may 
hereafter  be  invested,  and  for  'their  safe  keeping  he  shall  be 
liable  on  his  official  bond. 

SEC.  13.     When  due  (after  procuring  the  Controller's  war-  Payment  of 
rant  for  the  amount  thereof),  the  State  Treasurer  shall,  in  coupon8' 
the  presence  of  the  State  Board  of  Education,  or  a  majority 
of  the.  same,  cut  off  and  pay  the  coupon  on  such  State  securi- 
ties as  may  be  in  said  fund,  and  place  the  moneys  so-paid  in 


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Duties  of 

State 

Controller 

and 

Treasurer. 


Duties  of  the 
Attorney- 
General. 


Duties  of 
State  Board 
of  Education 


the  General  (distributing)  School  Fund  of  the  State,  and  keep 
a  correct  account  thereof  on  his  books. 

SEC.  14.  It  is  hereby  made  the  duty  of  the  State  Con- 
troller, quarterly,  to  notify  the  State  Board  of  Education  of  the 
amount  of  money  in  the  State  School  Fund,  and  whenever  there 
shall  be  a  sum  in  said  fund  sufficient  for  investment,  said 
Board  shall  direct  the  State  Treasurer  to  negotiate  for  invest- 
ment of  the  same  in  United  States  securities,  or  in  the  bonds 
of  this  State,  or  in  the  bonds  of  other  States,  at  the  lowest 
purchasable  rates,  and  the  Board  shall  then  draw  their  order 
upon  the  Controller  in  favor  of  the  State  Treasurer  for  the 
amount  to  be  invested.  Said  Controller  shall  thereupon  draw 
his  warrant  as  directed,  and  the  State  Treasurer  shall  com- 
plete the  purchase  of  the  securities  negotiated  for  by  him  in 
pursuance  of  this  Act;  provided,  that  before  any  such  invest- 
ment of  said  school  moneys  as  is  contemplated  by  the  pro- 
visions of  this  Act  is  made,  said  Board  of  Education  shall 
require  of  the  Attorney-General  of  this  State  his  legal  opinion 
as  to  the  validity  of  any  Act  or  Acts  of  any  State  under  which 
said  bonds  are  issued  and  in  which  said  Board  of  Education  are 
about  to  make  an  investment;  and  provided,  further,  that  in 
no  case  shall  any  bonds  be  purchased  as  herein  provided 
without  said  Board  of  Education  making  due  and  diligent 
inquiry  as  to  the  financial  standing  and  responsibility  of  the 
State  or  States  whose  bonds  it  is  proposed  to  purchase.  [As 
amended  Stats.  1891,  p.  14.] 


To  establish 

High 

Schools. 


Board  of 
County  Com- 
missioners 
must  make 
order. 


Board  may 
order  special 
election. 


ARTICLE   XX. 

COUNTY  HIGH  SCHOOL. 

[Stats.  1895,  p.  28.] 

SECTION  1.  There  may  be  established  in  any  county  in  this 
State  a  High  School;  provided,  that  at  any  general  or  special 
election  held  in  said  county  after  the  passage  of  this  Act,  a 
majority  of  all  the  votes  cast  at  such  election,  upon  the  prop- 
osition to  establish  a  High  School,  shall  be  in  favor  of  estab- 
lishing and  maintaining  such  High  School  at  the  expense  of 
said  county. 

SEC.  2.  The  Board  of  County  Commissioners  at  any  gen- 
eral election  to  be  held  in  any  county  after  the  passage  of 
this  Act,  upon  the  presentation  of  a  petition  signed  by  fifty 
or  more  qualified  electors,  taxpayers  of  said  county,  at  any 
regular  meeting  of  said  Board,  held  not  less  than  eight  weeks 
before  any  general  or  special  election,  must  make  an  order 
submitting  the  question  of  establishing,  constructing  and 
maintaining  a  County  High  School  to  the  qualified  electors 
thereof.  The  Board  of  County  Commissioners,  upon  the  pre- 
sentation of  said  petition,  if  they  deem  it  expedient,  may 
order  a  special  election  for  said  purpose.  Said  election  shall 
be  conducted  in  the  manner  prescribed  by  law  for  conduct- 
ing elections,  and  the  ballots  at  such  election  shall  have 


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printed  thereon  the  words:     "For  a  County  High  School,"  The  election 
and  the  words:    "Against  a  County  High  School."    The  votes  according  to 
cast  for  and  against  said  county  high  school  at  any  election  law- 
therefor,  shall  be  counted  and  returns  thereof  made  and  can- 
vassed in  a  manner  provided  for  by  law  for  counting,  making 
returns  and  canvassing  the  votes  of  a  general  election;  pro- 
vided, that  the   election   officers   appointed  to  conduct  any 
special  election  held  for  said  purpose,,  as  required  by  law, 
shall  perform  all  services  required  of  them  by  law  in  hold- 
ing and  conducting  such  elections,  without  any  fees  or  pay 
therefor. 

SEC.  3.     If  the  majority  of  all  the  votes  cast  on  the  propo-  Board  to 
sition  to  establish  a  High  School  are  in  the  affirjnative  it  ic£ooi.the 
shall  be  the  duty  of   the  Board  of   County  Commissioners, 
within  thirty  days  after  canvassing  said  vote,  to  locate  the 
school  in  some  suitable  and  convenient  place  in  said  county. 
The  County  Board  of  Commissioners,  together  with  the  County 
Board  of  Examiners,  who  shall  be  known   as  the  County  county 
Board  of  Education,  shall  also  at  the  same  time  estimate  the  IducatTon  to 
cost  of  purchasing  suitable  grounds,  erecting  a  building  and  ^'JJ^ashS 
furnishing  the  same  for  the  accommodation  of  the  school,  grounds, 
together  with  the  cost  of  conducting  such  school  for  the  next "~ 
twelve  months;  provided,  that  the  County  Board  of  Education  etc- 
may  rent  suitable  rooms  for  the  accommodation  of  the  school. 
If  rooms  can  be  obtained  in  the  public  school  buildings  in 
the  place  in  which  said  school  shall  be  located,  such  rooms 
shall  be  given  the  preference. 

SEC.  4.     When  such  estimate  shall  have  been  made,  the  special  tax  to 
Board  of  County  Commissioners  shall  thereupon  immediately  |Vardeofby 
proceed  to  levy  a  special'  tax  upon  all  the  assessable  property  " 
of  the  county,  sufficient  to  raise  the  amount  estimated  as 
necessary  for  the  purchase  of    suitable  grounds,  procuring 
plans  and  specifications,  erecting  a  building,  furnishing  the 
same,  fencing  and  ornamenting  the  grounds,  and  the  cost  of 
running  said  school  for  the  following  twelve  months.     Said 
tax  shall  be  computed,  entered  on  the  tax  roll,  and  collected 
in  the  same  manner  as  other  taxes  are  computed,  entered  and 
collected,  and  the  amount  so  collected  shall  be  deposited  in 
the  County  Treasury,  and  be  known  and  designated  as  the 
"  County  High  School  Fund,"  and  shall  be  drawn  from  the 
treasury  as  other  moneys  so  deposited  are  drawn. 

SEC.  5.     When  the  Board  of  County  Commissioners  shall 
have  properly  provided  and  completed  the  building,  together  county' 
with  the  necessary  fencing  of  the  grounds  so  purchased,  they  Education, 
shall  cause  the  same  to  be  deeded  to  the  County  Board  of 
Education,  who  shall  hold  the  same  in  trust  for  the  county. 

SEC.  6.     The   Board   of    County   Commissioners   of    such  £°uc°tnystitute 
counties  wherein  a  County  High  School  shall  be  established  Board  of 
shall,  after  the  expiration  of  the  term  for  which  the  County  E 
Superintendent  holding  office  at  the  time  of  the  establish- 
ment of   a  County  High  School  in  that   county,  thereafter 


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Board  of 
Education. 


admitted. 


appoint  two  competent  persons,  who,  with  the  County  Super- 
intendent, shall  constitute  the  County  Board  of  Education. 
Such  appointments  shall  be  made  biennially  at  the  first 
meeting  of  the  Board  of  Commissioners  held  after  the  first 
day  of  January  following  the  election  of  a  County  Superin- 
tendent of  Schools,  and  the  persons  so  appointed  shall  hold 
their  office  two  years,  or  until  their  successors  are  appointed 
and  qualified. 

SEC.  7.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  County  Board  of  Edu- 
cation  to  furnish,  annually,  an  estimate  of  the  amount  of 
money  needed  to  pay  all  the  necessary  expenses  of  running 
gaj^  g^^.  ^o  adopt  the  necessary  text  books,  to  adopt  and 
enforce  a.  course  of  study  for  said  school;  to  employ  suitable 
teachers,  janitors  and  other  employes,  and  discharge  such 
employes  when  sufficient  cause  therefor  shall  exist;  and  to  do 
any  and  all  other  things  necessary  to  the  proper  conduct  of 
the  school.  The  course  of  study  shall  be  such  as  will,  when 
it  is  completed  by  the  student,  fit  him  for  admission  to  the 
University  of  Nevada. 

SEC.  8.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Board  of  County  Com- 
missi°ners  to  include  in  their  annual  tax  levy  the  amount 
estimated  by  the  County  Board  of  Education  as  needed  to 
pay  the  expenses  of  conducting  the  County  High  School;  and 
such  amount,  when  collected  and  paid  into  the  County 
Treasury,  shall  be  known  as  the  "County  High  School  Fund,'' 
and  may  be  drawn  therefrom  for  the  purpose  of  defraying  the 
expenses  of  conducting  said  County  High  School,  in  the  man- 
ner now  provided  by  law  for  drawing  money  by  School 
Trustees. 

SEC.  9.  All  High  Schools  shall  be  open  for  the  admission 
of  such  pupils  residing  in  the  county  as  shall  be  able  to  pass 

,,  •r.x..          „          °,       .      .  ,  .  r  ,  .        ..  1111 

the  examination  for  admission,  which  examination  shall  be 
conducted  by  the  County  Board  of  Education  and  the  Prin- 
cipal of  the  County  High  School. 


ARTICLE   XXI. 

STATE  UNIVERSITY. 

[Stats.  1887,  p.  42.] 

SECTION  1.  There  shall  be  established  in  the  State  Univer- 
Literaryand  sity  of  Nevada,  a  school  for  the  instruction  of  teachers,  in 
which  shall  be  taught  all  the  branches  of  instruction  which 
are  taught  in  the  common  schools  of  this  State,  together  with 
the  theory  and  practice  of  teaching,  school  law,  botany, 
pyschology,  and  geology.  There  shall  also  be  taught  in.  said 
University,  chemistry,  assaying,  mineralogy,  surveying  and 
geology,  so  far  as  they  relate  to  the  theory  and  practice  of 
mining,  agriculture  and  the  mechanic  arts.  There  shall  also 
be  taught  in  the  preparatory  department  of  said  University, 
type-writing,  shorthand,  telegraphy,  bookkeeping  and  com- 


state 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  NEVADA.  3< 

mercial  law,  so  far  as  they  relate  to  the  practical  affairs  of 
life.     [As  amended  Stats.  1891,  p.  92.] 

SEC.  2.  The  Governor,  Secretary  of  State  and  Superin-  Regents, 
tendent  of  Public  Instruction  shall  constitute  the  Board  of 
Regents  of  the  State  University  until  the  first  day  of  January, 
A.  D.  eighteen  hundred  and  'eighty-nine,  and  until  their  suc- 
cessors are  elected  and  qualified.  There  shall  be  elected  at 
the  next  general  election,  in  the  same  manner  as  other  State 
officers  are  elected,  three  qualified  electors,  who  shall  consti- 
tute the  Board  of  Regents  of  the  State  University.  The  term 
of  office  of  two  of  the  Regents  so  elected  shall  be  four  years 
from  the  first  day  of  January,  A.  D.  eighteen  hundred  and 
eighty-nine,  and  until  their  successors  are  elected  and  quali-  . 
fied.  The  term  of  office  of  one  of  the  Regents  so  elected 
shall  be  two  years  from  and  after  the  first  day  of  January, 
A.  D.  eighteen  hundred  and  eighty-nine,  and  until  his  suc- 
*cessor  is  elected  and  qualified.  And  thereafter  at  each  Election  of 
general  efection  preceding  the  expiration  of  the  term  of  office  Regents- 
of  any  member  of  the  Board  of  Regents  a  successor  shall  be 
elected  in  the  same  manner  as  other  State  officers  are  elected. 
The  persons  elected  as  Regents  under  the  provision  of  this 
Act,  before  entering  upon  the  duties  of  their  office,  shall  take 
and  subscribe  the  official  oath  and  file  the  same  in  the  office 
of  Secretary  of  State.  In  case  of  vacancy  in  said  Board  .of 
Regents,  after  the  same  shall  have  been  filled  by  election  as 
herein  provided,  the  Governor  shall  fill  the  same  by  appoint- 
ment until  the  next  general  election,  when  such  vacancy 
shall  be  filled  by  election,  as  herein  provided. 

SEC.  3.  The  powers  and  duties  of  the  Board  of  Regents 
are  as  follows: 

First — To  prescribe  rules  for  their  own  government, .  and  Powers  and 
for  the  government  of  the  University.  Regents' 

Second — To  prescribe  rules  for  the  reports  of  officers  and 
teachers  of  the  University. 

Third — To  prescribe  the  course  of  study,  the  time  and 
standard  of  graduation,  and  the  commencement  and  dura- 
tion of  the  terms,  and  the  length  of  the  vacations  of  the 
University. 

Fourth — To  prescribe  the  text-books,  and  provide  appa- 
ratus and  furniture  for  the  use  of  pupils. 

Fifth — To  appoint  a  President  of  the  University,  who  shall 
have  a  diploma  from  some  recognized  college  of  learning  of 
good  standing,  or  some  State  Normal  School,  who  has  had  at 
least  five  years  of  practical  experience  as  an  instructor; 
who  is  familiar  with  the  modern  methods  of  imparting 
instruction  generally  approved  in  the  United  States,  and 
who  shall  be  endorsed  as  to  moral  character  and  qualifica- 
tions as  an  instructor  by  the  President  and  Faculty  of  three 
institutions  of  learning  authorized  by  law  to  confer  degrees. 

Sixth — To  prescribe  the  duties  of  the  President,  and   fix 


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his  salary  and  the  salaries  of  all  other  teachers  in  the  Uni- 
versity. 

Seventh — To  require  the  President,  under  their  direction, 
to  establish  and  maintain  training  or  model  schools,  and 
require  the  pupils  of  the  University  to  teach  and  instruct 
classes  therein. 

Eighth — To  control  the  expenditures  of  all  moneys  appro- 
priated for  the  support  and  maintenance  of  the  University, 
and  all  moneys  received  from  any  source  whatsoever. 

Ninth — To  keep  open  to  public  inspection  an  account  of 
receipts  and  expenditures. 

Tenth — To  annually  report  to  the  Governor  a  statement  of 
all  their  transactions,  and  of  all  other  matters  pertaining  to 
the  University. 

Eleventh — To  transmit  with  such  report  a  copy  of  the  Pres- 
ident's annual  report. 

Twelfth — To  revoke  any  diploma  by  them  granted,  on 
receiving  satisfactory  evidence  that  the  holder  {hereof  is 
addicted  to  drunkenness,  is  guilty  of  gross  immorality,  or  is 
reputably  dishonest  in  his  or  her  dealings;  provided,  that  such 
person  shall  have  at  least  thirty  days'  previous  notice  of  such 
contemplated  action,  and  shall,  if  he  or  she  asks  it,  be  heard 
in  his  or  her  own  defense. 

SEC.  4.     The  Board  of   Regents  shall  have  the  power   to 

chairman  to  appoint   a   Chairman,  who   shall   receive   no   compensation 

be  appointed,  therefor,  nor  shall  any  member  receive  any  compensation  for 

his  services  except  necessary  expenses  in  attending  meetings 

of  the  Board.     The  Board  of   Regents  may  employ  a  Clerk 

of    said    Board,  who   shall   receive  a  salary   of   twenty-five 

dollars  per  month,  and  who  shall  keep  a  full  record  of   all 

proceedings  of  the  Board,  which  shall  at  all  times  be  open  to 

public  inspection,  and  said  Clerk  shall  not  be  a  teacher  in 

said  University. 

SEC.  5.  The  Board  must  hold  four  regular  meetings  in 
each  year,  and  may  hold  special  meetings  at  the  call  of  the 
Chairman  of  the  Board. 

SEC.  6.  The  President  of  the  University  must  make  a 
detailed  annual  report  to  the  Board  of  Regents,  with  a  cata- 
logue of  pupils,  and  such  other  particulars  as  the  Board  may 
require  or  he  may  think  useful. 

SEC.  7.  Upon  the  recommendation  of  the  President  of  the 
University,  the  Board  of  Regents  shall  issue  to  those  who 
worthily  complete  the  full  course  of  study  in  the  School  of 
Mines,  or  in  the  School  of  Agriculture,  or  in  the  School  of 
Liberal  Arts,  or  in  any  equivalent  course  that  may  hereafter 
be  prescribed,  a  diploma  of  graduation,  conferring  the  proper 
Academic  academic  degree,  from  the  Nevada  State  University;  and  no 
Sued.'  h°W  diploma  bearing  the  distinctive  title,  "  Nevada  State  Univer- 
sity," shall  be  issued  to  any  one  who  has  not  completed  the 
full  course  of  study  as  above  set  forth.  Upon  the  recommen- 
dation of  the  President  of  the  University,  the  Board  of 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OP  NEVADA,  41 

Regents  shall  issue  to  those  who  worthily  complete  the  full 
four  years'  course  of  study  prescribed  in  the  Nevada  State 
Normal  School,  a   department   of   the   State   University,   a 
diploma  of  graduation,  and  said  diploma  shall  bear  the  head-  formal State 
ing,  "  The  Nevada  State  Normal  School,"  and  to  all  persons  school, 
receiving  this  diploma,  the  State  Board  of  Education  shall 
issue  a  State  High  School  certificate  of  the  first  grade,  good  l^of Igh 
for  five  years.     To  the  holders  of  the  above  State  High  School  certificates, 
certificates  of  the  first  grade,  the  State  Board  of  Education 
shall  grant  a  life  diploma  when  said  graduates  of  the  Nevada  Life  diploma. 
State  Normal  School  shall  have  completed  at  least  five  years 
of  successful  instruction  in  the  public  schools  of  Nevada,  or 
of  any  other  State.     Upon  the  recommendation  of  the  Presi- 
dent of  the  University,  the  Board  of  Regents  shall  issue  to 
those  who  worthily  complete  the  three  years'  course  of  study 
prescribed  in  the  Nevada  State  Normal  School,  a  grammar  Grammar 
grade  diploma  of  graduation,  and  said  diploma  shall  bear  ^oma 
the  heading,  "  Nevada  State  Normal  School  Grammar  Grade 
Diploma,"  and  to  all  persons  receiving  this  grammar  grade 
diploma,  the  State  Board  of  Education  shall  grant  a  grammar 
grade   State  certificate  good  for   five  years.     The  Board  of 
Regents  may  require  said  Normal  School  graduates,  before 
granting  the  diplomas  herein  provided  for,  to  sign  the  fol- 
lowing obligation :     a  I  hereby  agree  to  report  to  the  Presi- 
dent of  the  University,  by  letter,  at  least  twice  a  year  for 
three  years  after  my  graduation,  and  once  a  year  thereafter, 
so  long  as  I  continue  in  the  profession  of  teaching,  and  when 
I  shall  leave  the  profession  I  will  report  the  fact  to  him,  with 
the  cause  therefor.     A  failure  to  make  such  reports  may  be  cause  tor 
considered  sufficient  cause  for  the  revocation  of  my  diploma."  revocation- 
And  further,  it  is  hereby  expressly  provided  that  the  gradu- 
ates of  the  Nevada  State  Normal  School  for  the  year  1895 
shall  receive  their  diplomas  and  State  certificates  according 
to  the  Act  of  March  19,  1891,  hereby  amended.     Upon  the 
recommendation   of    the   President   of   the   University,   the 
Board  of  Regents  shall  issue  to  those  who  worthily  complete 
the  full  course  of  study  in  any  other  department  of  the  Uni- 
versity,  not   equivalent   to   a  regular    University   course,  a 
diploma  of  graduation,  but  said  diploma  shall  bear  the  name  Diploma  of 
of  the  department  from  which  it  is  issued,  and  in  no  case  to  sraduatlon- 
bear  the  heading  of  the  regular   University  diploma.     [As 
amended  Stats.  1895,  p.  89.] 

SEC.  8.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  President  of  the  Univer-  Duty  of 
sity  to  instruct  in  the  University,  and,  under  the  direction  of 
the  Board  of  Regents,  to  manage  all  matters  connected  with 
the  institution,  to  employ  assistant  teachers  and  servants, 
purchase  supplies  and  make  monthly  statements  to  the  Board 
of  Regents  of  all  receipts  and  expenditures,  supported  by 
vouchers. 

SEC.  9.     There  shall  be  no  discrimination  in  the  admission  NO  dis- 
of  pupils  on  account  of  sex,  race  or  color;  but  no  person  shall  criminatlon- 


42 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  NEVADA. 


Duties  of 
Board  of 
Examiners. 


be  admitted  who  is  not  of  good  moral  character,  and  who  has 
not  arrived  at  the  age  of  fifteen  years,  and  passed  such  an 
examination  as  shall  be  prescribed  by  the  Board  of  Regents, 
and  no  person  under  said  age  shall  hereafter  be  taught  in 
said  institution. 

SEC.  10.     Tuition  shall  be  free. 

SEC.  11.  The  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction 
must  visit  the  University  at  least  every  three  months,  inquire 
into  its  condition  and  management  and  report  to  the  Board 
of  Regents  quarter-yearly  the  condition  of  the  institution, 
with  such  suggestions  as  he  may  deem  proper. 

SEC.  12.  All  expenses  incurred,  of  every  name  and  nature, 
involving  the  payment  of  money  by  or  under  the  direction 
of  the  Board  of  Regents  of  the  University,  shall  be  passed 
upon  by  the  Board  of  Examiners  as  other  accounts  against 
the  State,  and  be  paid  out  of  the  moneys  appropriated  for 
the  University. 


Relating  to 
chemical 
analysis  at 
State 
University. 


Relating  to 
analysis  in 
duplicate. 


Sample 
assays  for 
gold  and 
silver. 


ORES  TO  BE  ANALYZED  AT  THE  UNIVERSITY. 

[Stats.  1895,  p.  76.] 

SECTION  1.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  President  of  the 
State  University,  in  addition  to  his  other  duties  as  fixed 
by  law,  to  cause  to  be  analyzed  by  an  assistant,  teacher  or 
teachers  employed  at  the  State  University,  any  ores,  min- 
eral, soil  or  water  taken  from  within  the  boundaries  of  the 
State  of  Nevada,  and  sent  by  any  citizen  of  said  State 
for.  that  purpose.  Any  citizen  of  the  State  may  send  any 
such  substances  and  have  the  same  analyzed  free  of  charge, 
and  the  result  of  the  same  returned  to  him  by  mail  with  as 
near  as  possible  an  explanation  of  their  uses  and  value  in 
market,  and  there  shall  be  kept  at  the  State  University  a 
book  of  record  open  for  inspection,  under  such  rules  as  may 
be  made  by  the  Regents,  of  all  mineral,  ores  or  other  matters 
so  sent,  with  the  history  of  such  mineral  or  other  matters, 
stating  the  name  of  the  person  or  persons  from  whom 
received,  the  district  and  county  from  which  it  came,  and 
all  other  matters  that  may  be  beneficial  touching  the  same. 
A  duplicate  of  the  sample  analyzed,  as  far  as  practicable, 
shall  be  kept  at  the  University,  properly  labeled,  so  as  to 
correspond  to  the  record,  and  properly  preserved. 

SEC.  2."  If  the  same  kind  of  matter  for  analysis  is  sent 
from  the  same  place  it  shall  not  be  necessary  to  analyze  the 
same,  but  a  duplicate  of  the  analysis  shall  be  sent  by  mail 
to  the  person  desiring  the  same. 

SEC.  3.  Samples  for  analysis  shall  be  analyzed  in  the 
order  received. 

SEC.  4.  Sample  assays  for  gold  or  silver  shall  be  made, 
and  when  the  value  per  ton  exceeds  five  dollars  in  gold,  the 
returns  shall  state  the  fact  thus,  "  Test  for  gold."  And  when 
the  value  per  ton  exceeds  five  dollars  in  silver  the  returns 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  NEVADA.  43 

shall   state  the  fact  thus,  "Test  for  silver."     [As  amended 
Stats.  1897,  p.  91.]  

ARTICLE   XXII. 

HONORARY   BOARD   OF  VISITORS   OF  NEVADA  STATE 
UNIVERSITY. 

[Stats.  1895,  p.  40.] 

SECTION  1.     There  is  hereby  created  a  Board  to  be  known 
as   the   Honorary   Board  of   Visitors  of    the    Nevada   State 
University.     Said  Board   shall   consist  of   fifteen    members. 
The  Chief  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  shall  be  ex  officio  a 
member  and  the  Chairman  of  said  Board.     In  the  absence 
of  said  Chief  Justice  the  members  of   the  Board  may  elect 
one  of  their  number  to  act  as  Temporary  Chairman.     The 
term  of   office  of   the  members  of   said  Board  shall  be  two  Term  of 
years   from   the  date  of   their  appointment  and  until  their  Ol 
successors  are  appointed. 

SEC.  2.     The   Governor    shall    appoint    and   commission,  who  shaii 
within  forty  days  after  the  passage  of   this  Act,  from  each  act' 
county,  one  suitable  and  discreet  person  who  is  interested  in 
higher  education  and  who  is  an  actual  resident  of  said  county 
as  a  member  of  said  Board. 

SEC.  3.     It  shall  be  the  duty  of  said  Board  of  Visitors  to  Duties  of 
meet  annually  at  the  seat  of  the  Nevada  State  University  Board- 
during  commencement  week,  and  inspect  the  grounds,  build- 
ings and  equipment  of  said  University,  and  also  inquire  into 
the  actual  state  of  the  discipline,  instruction,  police  adminis-  • 
tratioh  and  other  affairs  or  concerns  of  the  University.     The 
Board  of  Visitors  shall  report  thereon  to  the  Governor  within 
thirty  days  after  each  annual  meeting,  for  the  information  of 
the  people  of  the  State  and  of  the  next  succeeding  Legislature 
of  the  State,  their  action  as  such  Visitors,  with  their  views 
and  recommendations  concerning  the  University,  such  as  they 
shall  deem  wise  and  just  and  for  the  best  interests  of  the 
University. 

SEC.  4.     The  President  of   the  University  shall  cause  at  Notice  to 
least  thirty  days'  notice  to  be  given  to  the  members  of  the 
Honorary  Board  of  Visitors  of  the  time  and  place  of  their 
annual  meeting. 

SEC.  5.     No  compensation  shall  be  made  to  the  members  No  com- 
of  said  Board  of  Visitors  for  their  services  or  for  their  travel-  pen 
ing  expenses,  but  the  Board  of  Regents  shall  pay  out  of  the 
University  Contingent  Fund  their  expenses  for  board  and 
lodging  while  at  the  University. 


APPENDIX 


CONSTITUTION  OF  NEVADA. 


Superin- 
tendent, 
when  elected. 


Term  of 


System  to  be 
uniform. 


Lands  and 
funds 
pledged  to 
educational 
purposes. 


Escheated 
estates  and 
fines 

pledged  to 
educational 
purposes. 


ARTICLE   XI. 

EDUCATION. 

SECTION  1.  The  Legislature  shall  encourage,  by  all  suit- 
able means,  the  promotion  of  intellectual,  literary,  scientific, 
mining,  mechanical,  agricultural  and  moral  improvements; 
and  also  provide  for  the  election  by  the  people,  at  the  gen- 
eral election,  of  a  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction,  whose 
term  of  office  shall  be  two  years  from  the  first  Monday  of 
January,  A.  D.  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-five,  and  until 
the  election  #nd  qualification  of  his  successor,  and  whose 
duties  shall  be  prescribed  by  law. 

SEC.  2.  The  Legislature  shall  provide  for  a  uniform  sys- 
tem of  common  schools,  by  which  a  school  shall  be  estab- 
lished and  maintained  in  each  school  district  at  least  six 
months  in  every  year;  and  any  school  district  neglecting  to 
establish  and  maintain  such  a  school,  or  shall  allow  instruc- 
tion of  a  sectarian  character  therein,  may  be  deprived  of  its 
proportion  of  the  interest  of  the  public  school  fund  during 
such  neglect  or  infraction;  and  the  Legislature  may  pass  such 
laws  as  will  tend  to  secure  a  general  attendance  of  the 
children  in  each  school  district  upon  said  public  schools. 

SEC.  3.  All  lands,  including  the  sixteenth  and  thirty-sixth 
sections  in  any  township  donated  for  the  benefit  of  public 
schools  in  the  Act  of  the  Thirty-eighth  Congress,  to  enable 
the  people  of  Nevada  Territory  to  form  a  State  Government, 
the  thirty  thousand  acres  of  public  lands  granted  by  an  Act 
of  Congress,  approved  July  second,  A.  D.  eighteen  hundred 
and  sixty -two,  for  each  Senator  and  Representative  in  Con- 
gress, and  all  proceeds  of  lands  that  have  been  or  may  here- 
after be  granted  or  appropriated  by  the  United  States  to  this 
State,  and  also  the  five  hundred  thousand  acres  of  land 
granted  to  the  new  States  under  the  Act  of  Congress  distrib- 
uting the  proceeds  of  the  public  lands  among  the  several 
States  of  the  Union,  approved  A.  D.  eighteen  hundred  and 
forty-one;  provided,  that  Congress  make  provision  for  or 
authorize  such  diversion  to  be  made  for  the  purpose  herein 
contained;  all  estates  that  may  escheat  to  the  State;  all  of  such 
per  centum  as  may  be  granted  by  Congress  on  the  sale  of 
lands;  all  fines  collected  under  the  penal  laws  of  the  State; 
all  property  given  or  bequeathed  to  the  State  for  educational 
purposes,  and  all  proceeds  derived  from  any  or  all  of  said 
sources,  shall  be  and  the  same  are  hereby  solemnly  pledged 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  NEVADA.  47 

for  educational  purposes,  and  shall  not  be  transferred  to  any 

other  fund  for  other  uses;    and  the  interest   thereon  shall, 

from  time  to  time,  be  apportioned  among  the  several  counties 

as  the  Legislature  may  provide  by  law;  and  the  Legislature 

shall  provide  for  the  sale  of  floating  land  warrants  to  cover 

the  aforesaid  lands,  and  for  the  investment  of  all  proceeds 

derived  from  any  of  the  above-mentioned  sources,  in  United 

States  bonds,  or  "the  bonds  of  this  State,  or  the  bonds  of  other 

States  of  the  Union;  provided,  that  the  interest  only  of  the  interest  only 

aforesaid  proceeds  shall  be   used  for  educational   purposes, tc 

and  any  surplus  interest  shall  be  added  to  the  principal  sum; 

and  provided,  further,  that  such  portions  of  said  interest  as  May  be 

may  be  necessary  may  be  appropriated  for  the  support  of  the  SrPstatea  € 

State  University.     [As  amended— Fifth  Amendment.]  university. 

SEC.  4.     The   Legislature  shall  provide  for  the  establish-  university. 
ment  of  a  State  University,  which  shall  embrace  departments 
for  agriculture,  mechanic  arts,  and  mining,  to  be  controlled 
by  a  Board  of  Regents,  whose  duties  shall  be  prescribed  by 
law. 

SEC.  5.  The  Legislature  shall  have  power  to  establish  ^ 
normal  schools,  and  such  different  grades  of  schools,  from 
the  primary  department  to  the  University,  as  in  their  discre- 
tion, they  may  deem  necessary,  and  all  professors  in  said 
University,  or  teachers  in  said  schools,  of  whatever  grade, 
shall  be  required  to  take  and  subscribe  to  the  oath  as  pre- 
scribed in  Article  XV.  of  this  Constitution.  No  professor  or 
teacher  who  fails  to  comply  with  the  provisions  of  this  sec- 
tion shall  be  entitled  to  receive  any  portion  of  the  public 
moneys  set  apart  for  school  purposes. 

SEC.  6.     The  Legislature  shall  provide  a  special  tax,  which  special  tax 
shall  not  exceed  two  mills  on  the  dollar  of  all  taxable  property  Jducatfonai 
in  the  State,  in  addition  to  the  other  means  provided  for  the  PurP°ses- 
support  and  maintenance  of   said  University  and  common 
schools.     [As  amended — Sixth  Amendment.] 

SEC.  7.  The  Governor,  Secretary  of  State  and  Superin- 
tendent  of  Public  Instruction  shall,  for  the  first  four  years, 
and  until  their  successors  are  elected  and  qualified,  constitute 
a  Board  of  Regents,  to  control  and  manage  the  affairs  of  the 
University  and  the  funds  of  the  same,  under  such  regulations 
as  may  be  provided  by  law.  But  the  Legislature  shall,  at  its 
regular  session  next  preceding  the  expiration  of  the  term  of 
office  of  said  Board  of  Regents,  provide  for  the  election  of  a 
new  Board  of  Regents,  and  define  their  duties. 

SEC.  8.   The  Board  of  Regents  shall,  from  the  interest  accru-  Duties  of 
ing  from  the  first  funds  which  come  under  their  control,  Regen 
immediately  organize  and  maintain  the  said  mining  depart- 
ment in  such  manner  as  to  make  it  the  most  effective  and 
useful;  provided,  that  all  the  proceeds  of  the  public  lands 
donated  by  Act  of    Congress,  approved  July  second,  A.  D. 
eighteen  hundred  and  sixty -two,  for  a  college  for  the  benefit 
of  agriculture,  the  mechanic  arts,  and  including  military 


48  SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  NEVADA. 

tactics,  shall  be  invested  by  the  said  Board  of  Regents  in  a 
separate  fund,  to  be  appropriated  exclusively  for  the  benefit 
of  the  first  named  departments  of  the  University,  as  set  forth 
in  section  four  above;  and  the  Legislature  shall  provide  that, 
if  through  neglect  or  any  other  contingency,  any  portion  of 
the  fund  so  set  apart  shall  be  lost  or  misappropriated,  the 
State  of  Nevada  shall  replace  said  amount  so  lost  or  misap- 
propriated in  said  fund,  so  that  the  principal  of  said  fund 
shall  remain  forever  undiminished. 

SEC.  9.     No   sectarian   instruction   shall   be   imparted  or 

SrowSted8m  tolerated  in  any  school  or  university  that  may  be  established 
under  this  Constitution. 

SEC.  10.  No  public  funds  of  any  kind  or  character  whatever, 

sectarian f°r  State,  county  or  municipal,  shall  be  used  for  sectarian  purposes. 

purposes.       [Added  by  Second  Amendment.] 


INDEX. 


INDEX  TO  SCHOOL  LAWS. 


ARBOR  DAY—  Page.    Section. 

Established 30 

APPENDIX— 

Article  XL,  State  Constitution 46 

AUDITOR,  COUNTY— 

To  draw  warrant 9  2 

Shall  enter  tax,  when 20  11 

Tax  to  enter,  when 34  10 

BOARD  OF  EDUCATION,  STATE— 

Power  and  duties 5  4 

Prescribe  text  books 5  4 

Prescribe  rules  for  examination 5  4 

Adopt  course  of  study 5  .4 

Recommend  books  for  libraries 5  J 

Grant  certificates  and  diplomas 5  4 

Revoke  certificates 6  4 

Appellate  jurisdiction 6  4 

Prescribe  studies  for  examination 6  4 

Make  certificates  valid  in  all  counties 6  4 

Renew  certificates _• (5  4 

Grant  State  certificates  on  credentials 6  4 

Teachers'  examination,  direction  of I 23  1 

Examination  questions,  to  prepare 23  2 

Certificates  made  valid,  when 23  4 

Certificates  made  valid  by,  must  be  accepted 22  1 

Shall  cancel  certificates,  when 24  4 

Life  diplomas,  to  grant 25  1 

Educational  diplomas,  to  grant 25  3 

Life  diplomas  to  certain  graduates 26  4, 7 

Duty  of  in  relation  to  school  funds 36  14 

Opinion  of  Attorney-General,  required 36  14 

Graduates  of  University,  certificates  for 40  7 

BOARD  OF  EDUCATION,  COUNTY— 

Established !  37  3 

Members  appointed,  how 37  6 

May  rent  room  for  High  School 37  3 

High  School  building  to  be  deeded  to 37  5 

Duties  of 38  7 

County  Superintendent  to  appoint  members 22  1 

Certificates,  to  grant 22  1 

Certificates,  may  renew 22  1 

Governed  by  rules  of  State  Board  .__• 22  1 

Examinations,  when  held 23  1 

Directions  to  follow : 1 23  2 

To  grade  papers _ 23 

To  preserve  papers 23  3 

Pay  of. - 24  6 

Certificates,  not  to  renew  certain. _ 25  7 


INDEX   TO  SCHOOL  LAWS.  51 

BOARD   OF   VISITORS   OF   UNIVERSITY—  Page.    Section. 

How  composed 43  1 

Term  of  office 43  1 

Who  shall  act... 43  2 

Duties  of 43  3 

President  of  University  shall  notify--- _ 43  4 

No  compensation r 43  5 

CENSUS   MARSHAL— 

When  to  take  census  _-_  21  1 

Duties  of — - 21 

County  Superintendent  may  appoint,  when 21  3 

Who  to  include 21  4 

Who  not  to  include 21  5 

Neglect  of  duty,  penalty  for . 21  7 

Must  not  take  Indian  children 22  8 

CERTIFICATES,  COUNTY— 

Made  valid  in  all  counties 23  4 

Accepted  in  all  counties,  when 22  1 

Necessary  to  draw  public  money 12  5 

Grades  of 22  1 

Revoked * 6  4 

Canceled,  when 24  4 

May  be  renewed 25  7 

Age,  qualification  for 25  5 

Primary,  not  to  be  renewed 25  7 

State,  to  whom  issued 5  4 

Issued  without  examination 6  4 

Issued  to  graduates 41  7 

See  Examinations; -also,  Board  of  Examination. 

COMPULSORY  EDUCATION— 

Who  affected 31  1 

Trustees,  duty  of,  regarding '. 31  2 

Penalty  for  non-compliance 32  3 

COUNTY  SUPERINTENDENT  OF  SCHOOLS— 

District  Attorney,  ex  officio 8  1 

To  apportion  school  money 8  2 

Draw  orders  on  County  Auditor 9  2 

When  not  to  draw  orders 7 9  2 

Bills  rejected  by  County  Superintendent,  how  audited 9  2 

Must  visit  schools 9  3 

Distribute  blanks r_.' 9  3 

Must  make  annual  report  _._^ 10  3 

County  Institutes,  to  preside  over 10  3 

County  Institutes,  power  to  call 28  4 

Appoint  School  Trustees..       ..._i 10  3 

Penalty  for  failing  to  make  report _-  10  4 

Deputy  may  appoint 10  .5 

Must  attend  office,  when 10  5 

To  designate  school  house,  when 11  3 

Joint  districts,  to  apportion  money . 12  3 

To  approve  plans  of  school  houses 16  2 

Out -houses,  to  supply,  when 16  2 

May  appoint  Census  Marshal,  when 21  3 

Duty  in  relation  to  Census  Marshal 22  9 

Appoint  Board  of  Examination 22  1 

Care  of  examination  questions 23  2 

Examination  papers,  to  preserve -_  23  3 


52  INDEX   TO   SCHOOL  LAWS. 

COUNTY  SUPERINTENDENT  OF  SCHOOLS  (Continued)—  Page.    Section. 

Examination  papers,  to  forward 23  4 

Member  County  Board  of  Education 38  6 

COUNTY  COMMISSIONERS— 

Audit  bills  on  School  Fund,  when 9  2 

Enforce  penalty  against  County  Superintendent,  when 10  4 

Create,  change  and  abolish  school  districts 11  2 

Appoint  Trustees  of  joint  districts 12  2 

Levy  special  tax,  when 19  10 

Audit  pay  of  Census  Marshal 21  *> 

Authorize  County  Institute.. .. 28  4 

Deaf,  dumb  and  blind,  duty  in  relation  to 30  2 

Deaf,  dumb  and  blind,  furnish  transportation  for 31  3 

Levy  school  tax 34  8 

Enforce  penalty  against  County  Treasurer,  when 35  12 

Election  for  County  High  School,  to  call,  when 36  2 

To  locate  County  High  School 37  :', 

To  deed  High  School  over 37  5 

To  appoint  members  of  Board  of  Education 37  ti 

Levy  High  School  tax 38  8 

DIPLOMAS— 

State  Board  to  grant 5  4 

Educational,  to  whom  granted 25  3 

Life,  to  and  by  whom  granted 25  1 

Life,  to  and  by  whom  granted 20  4 

Life,  to  and  by  whom  granted 26  5 

Life,  to  and  by  whom  granted 26  H 

Life,  to  and  by  whom  granted 26  7 

Life,  to  and  by  whom  granted 41  7 

Life,  grade  of. 25  2 

Life,  grade  of 26  6 

Accepted  in  all  schools ^ 25  ^ 

Accepted  in  all  schools 25  3 

Accepted  in  all  schools ,___• 26  4 

State  Board  to  grant 41  7 

Whatexcepted 1 6  4 

DEAF,  DUMB  AND   BLIND— 

Education  of_ 30  1 

Application  for  education,  how  made 30  2 

Who  to  be  educated 30  3 

Transportation  of 31  ! 

ELECTION  OF  SCHOOL  TRUSTEES— 

When  held 12  1 

Take  office,  when 12  1 

Trustees  appointed  when  not  elected 12 

Appointment  of  Judges  and  Inspectors 13  :: 

Trustees  to  post  notices  of- 13  •"> 

Who  may  vote  at 13  6 

Clerk  of  Board  to  register  voters 13  7 

Oath  of  voter 13  7 

Voter  must  be  registered 1 13  8 

Trustees  may  employ  Clerk,  when 14  9 

Ballots  at  election  of 14      12,14 

How  to  vote  at  election  of 14      13,16 

Ballot  not  to  be  shown 15  15 

Challenge  of  voter 15  17 

Candidates  in  certain  districts  __                                                          .    15  18 


INDEX   TO   SCHOOL   LAWS.  ."),•', 

EXAMINATION,   TEACHERS'—  Page.    Section. 

Time  of. 23  I 

Questions  for 23  2 

Order  of  questions.-.                                                                              .  23  -J 

Percentage  to  attain 23  3 

Subjects  required 24 

Subjects  required  when  applying  for  higher  certificate 24  4 

Hoard  of  K,i-iiiuiii«ti<ni. 

HIGH  SCHOOL,  COUNTY— 

Established,  how 3ti  1 

Petition  for  establishing 36  2 

Election  for  establishing,  how  called _._  36  2 

How  located  and  built 37  3 

Tax  for 37  ( 

Supported,  how 38  8 

Governed,  how 38  7 

Course  of  study  in 38  7 

Who  admitted . ;JK  9 

INSTITUTE,  TEACHERS'— 

State,  when  held 27  1 

How  called  and  conducted 27  1 

Purpose  of _' 28  2 

Teachers  must  attend 28  3 

Teachers  receive  salary  while  attending 28  3 

County,how  called 28  4 

Cost  of  County 28  4 

NORMAL  SCHOOL,  STATE— 

Established  in  University i 38  1 

Graduates  to  receive  certificates 5  4 

Graduates  to  receive  life  diplomas 26 

Graduates  to  receive  certificates  and  diplomas 41  7 

Graduates,  obligation  of. 1  41  7 

Diplomas  maybe  revoked 41  7 

REGENTS  OF  STATE  UNIVERSITY— 

Election  of •_ 39  2 

Powers  and  duties  of 39  3 

May  employ  Clerk 40  4 

To  grant  diplomas 40  7 

SCHOOL— 

Property,  exemption  of 29  6 

House,  injury  to,  penalty  for 29  1 

Disturbance  of,  penalty  for 29  2 

<  'hildren.  protection  of 29  1 

Sectarian  literature  and  instruction,  prohibited  in  __    •  28  5 

Sectarianism  prohibited,  Constitution 4S  9 

SCHOOL  DISTRICT— 

Must  use  State  series  of  text  books f>  4 

<  'reated.  changed  and  abolished,  how 11  2 

Size  of 11  '2 

One  school  to  receive  public  money • ll  :: 

< 'hildren,  necessary  to  draw  money 11_  4 

Time  school  must  be  maintained  in 11  5 

Teacher  must  be  qualified 11  5 

When  divided,  money  apportioned,  how 12  5 

•Joint,  how  established 12 

Trustees  of  joint  districts .  12 


54  INDEX   TO   SCHOOL   LAWS. 

SCHOOL   FUNDS,  STATE—                                                                               Page.  Section. 

Irreducible,  what  constitutes 33  1 

Not  to  be  used  for  sectarian  purposes 33  2 

Apportioned,  how  and  when 7  2 

How  drawn  from  treasury 7  2 

How  drawn  from  treasury 33  4 

How  used T 33  3 

State  Treasurer,  custodian  of  securities 35  12 

Controller  to  keep  separate  account 33  6 

Controller  to  make  statement 34  7 

Controller,  duty  of,  in  relation  to 36  14 

School  tax  levied 34  8,10 

Percentage  of  State  tax  set  apart 35  11 

Board  of  Education  shall  invest 36  14 

Constitutional  provisions 46 

SCHOOL  FUNDS,  COUNTY— 

Apportioned,  how 8  2 

Paid  out,  how 9  2 

New  districts,  to  share  funds  of  old 12  5 

Apportioned  to  joint  districts,  how 12  3 

May  be  used,  how •_ 19  9 

County  Treasurer  to  receive 35  12 

County  Treasurer  to  pay  out 35  12 

SCHOOL  TRUSTEES— 

See  Trustees  of  School  Districts ;  also.  Election  of  School  Trustees, 

SCHOOL  MONTH— 

Length  of -' 28  4 

SCHOOL  YEAR— 

Defined -  28  1 

SUPERINTENDENT  OF  PUBLIC  INSTRUCTION— 

Election  of 6  1 

Apportion  school  money 6  2 

Report  to  Governor 7  3 

Blank  forms  and  registers,  to  furnish 7  4 

Compile  and  distribute  school  laws 8  4 

Visit  counties 8  5 

Examination  questions,  to  forward 23  2 

Examination  papers,  to  inspect _ 23  4 

Visit  University -  42  11 

TAXES—  •* 

Election  for  voting.-                                                                                .  19  10 

Duty  of  County  Commissioners--.                                                       -  20  10 

When  due 20  10 

Constitute  lien -  20  10 

Duty  of  County  Auditor _ 20  11 

To  establish  County  High  School- .  37  4 

For  maintaining  County  High  School 38  8 

Constitutional'provisions 46 

TEACHERS— 

Qualifications  of -  26  1 

Oath,  to  take -  26 

Register, to  keep — --  -  27 

See  Institute,  Certificates,  Examinations :  also,  Board  of  Examina- 
tion. 


INDEX  TO  SCHOOL  LAWS.  55 

TEXT  BOOKS—  Pa«e-    Section. 

Adopted  by  State  Board 5  4 

Districts,  must  use 5  4 

Changed,  how  often 5  4 

TRUSTEES  OF  SCHOOL  DISTRICT— 

Appointed  by  County  Superintendent,  when 10  3 

Election  of .  12 

Clerk  to  appoint,  pay  of,  etc 16  1 

Duties  of,  defined — . 16  2 

Members  not  to  be  interested  in  contracts  of  (exception) 16  3 

To  cause  school  census  to  be  taken 17  4 

To  make  report 17  4 

Employ  and  dismiss  teachers •  17  5 

Powers  and  duties  of 17  6 

Suspend  or  expel  pupils 18  6 

Apportion  money 18  6 

May  unite  contiguous  districts 18  7 

Transfer  pupils  and  money 18  7 

Must  keep  school  six  months 19  8 

Money,  how  to  use 19  9 

Taxes,  election  called  on 19  10 

Rate  bills  of  tuition '  20  13 

Duty  of  in  relation  to  compulsory  law 31  2 

To  furnish  books  and  stationery 32  4 

TREASURER,  COUNTY— 

Receive  school  money •—-."--..•- 35  12 

N'otify  County  Superintendent Jl__ _z- 35  12 

l';iy  out  school  money,  lmw-____ __--- 35  12 

Report  to  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction,  what 35  12 

Failure  to  report,  penalty rv_____-  35  12 

TREASURER,  STATE— 

Pay  over  school  funds ^ /. 33  4 

Custodian  of  securities 35  12 

Cut  coupons,  when 35  13 

Purchase  bonds,  when 36  14 

UNIVERSITY,  STATE— 

Graduates  to  receive  certificates _/__i 5  4 

Graduates  to  receive  life  diplomas I  26  7 

Normal  department  of .'___,. 38  1 

Regents  of 39  3 

President  of_ 39  3 

President  must  report 40  6 

Diplomas,  how  issued-, 40 

Graduates  to  receive  State' certificates 41  7 

Special  diplomas  issued 41  7 

Who  admitted ,__. 41  9 

Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction":to  visit - 42  11 

Ores  to  be  analyzed  at 42  1 

Assays  to  be  made 42  4- 

Board  of  Visitors  of ...                                                                              -  43 


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